Alfred Tylor was the second son of Joseph Tylor, brassfounder, by his wife, Harriet Skipper, and elder brother of the anthropologist Edward Burnett Tylor.
10 Facts About Alfred Tylor
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Alfred Tylor's grandfather set up the colliery around which the village of Tylorstown grew in the Rhondda Valley, Wales.
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Alfred Tylor's parents being members of the Society of Friends, he was educated in Quaker schools near London.
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Alfred Tylor studied in spare time, attaching himself to St Bartholomew's Hospital to improve his knowledge of anatomy.
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Alfred Tylor frequently visited the continent, going to Italy, Spain, and Russia, both for business and for scientific purposes with other geologists.
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Alfred Tylor died on 31 December 1884, on his return from a visit to America.
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Alfred Tylor was a friend of acclaimed Victorian critic, John Ruskin, who valued Alfred Tylor's geological skills and enjoyed his company.
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Juliet Alfred Tylor became a Companion of Ruskin's Guild of St George.
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Alfred Tylor paid attention to recent geological history, the subject of the majority of his thirteen papers.
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Alfred Tylor maintained that the late glacial period was followed by one of exceptional rainfall, for which he proposed the name of pluvial.