William Cooke Taylor

(1800-1849)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Taylor, W. C. (William Cooke), 1800-1849 NRA: Taylor William Cooke (1800-1849) Historian Statistician Advocate of Free Trade DNB: Taylor, William Cooke (1800-1849), historian and journalist LBT ID: WiTaylo1849 VIAF ID: 71705116 LOC ID: n50012514	B/BAP: 1800-04-16 DIED: 1849-09-12
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Historian and journalist who wrote for the Athenaeum and supported free trade; he published Life and Times of Sir Robert Peel, 3 vols (1846-8).
REFERENCES TO William Cooke Taylor: John Gibson Lockhart to Patrick Robertson, 23 September 1849 in The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Found 1: ¶ 1 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter VII. Found 1: ¶ 29 Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912, The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Chapter 21: 1842-50