Thomas Taylor [the Platonist]

(1758-1835)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Taylor, Thomas, 1758-1835 DNB: Taylor, Thomas (1758-1835), philosopher and translator LBT ID: ThTaylo1835 VIAF ID: 86699831 LOC ID: n79054710	B/BAP: 1758-05-15 DIED: 1835-11-01
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Bank-clerk and dissenter whose lectures on Platonic philosophy at the house of the sculptor John Flaxman gained him the title of “the Platonist.” He spent his later years as a professional translator.
REFERENCES TO Thomas Taylor [the Platonist]: Robert Southey, “Memoir: School at Bristol,” 27 May 1824 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 6 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1821 Found 1: ¶ 13 [Hugh Swinton Legaré], “Byron’s Letters and Journals” in The Southern Review 7 (May 1831) 1-42 Found 1: ¶ 27 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Early Life: XIII Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Chapter V Found 1: ¶ 7 William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. II: 1791-95 Found 1: ¶ 20 Ch. XIX Found 1: ¶ 8