1. George Watson-Taylor, of was a British-born Jamaican writer, plantation owner, politician and collector.
18 Facts About George Watson-Taylor
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George Watson-Taylor bought a house in Cavendish Square, London, and Erlestoke Park, near Devizes, Wiltshire.
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George Watson-Taylor was the fourth son of George Watson of Saul's River, Jamaica and was educated at Lincoln's Inn from 1788.
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George Watson-Taylor matriculated at St Mary Hall, Oxford in 1791.
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George Watson-Taylor was there until the 1826 general election, when he made way for Lord Perceval.
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George Watson-Taylor was in that election unopposed at Devizes, where Bucknall Estcourt was moving to Oxford and backed him.
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George Watson-Taylor began his career as a member of the committee of West India planters and merchants, and opposed the abolition of slavery.
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George Watson-Taylor then found a refuge, the debtors' sanctuary attached to the Abbey at Holyrood Palace, Scotland.
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George Watson-Taylor died, still in financial difficulties, in Edinburgh, on 6 June 1841, aged 69 or 70.
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George Watson-Taylor has been described as a "great collector and connoisseur".
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George Watson-Taylor purchased from Henry Hope a picture by Jacob van der Ulft in early 1811, and made further acquisitions from the sale later that year that followed Hope's death in April.
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George Watson-Taylor was noted for collections of sculpture and French furniture.
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From his collection of old master paintings, George Watson-Taylor held a major sale in 1823.
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George Watson-Taylor was at this time improving the private apartments at Windsor Castle.
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George Watson-Taylor was advised by William Seguier, believed to have been used by Watson-Taylor for furniture acquisitions, and Charles Long.
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George Watson-Taylor was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1826.
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In 1832, George Watson-Taylor was forced by further financial difficulties to sell the contents of Erlestoke House.
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George Watson-Taylor was granted the additional surname of Taylor by royal licence of 19 June 1815, following the death earlier that year of Sir Simon Richard Brissett Taylor, 2nd Baronet, whom his wife, the eldest niece, had succeeded.