11 Facts About Isaac Taylor

Isaac Taylor was an English philosophical and historical writer, artist, and inventor.

Isaac Taylor was the eldest surviving son of Isaac Taylor of Ongar.

Isaac Taylor was born at Lavenham, Suffolk, on 17 August 1787, and moved with his family to Colchester and, at the end of 1810, to Ongar.

In 1818 a friend of the family, Josiah Conder, then editor of the Eclectic Review, persuaded Taylor to join its regular staff, which already included Robert Hall, John Foster, and Olinthus Gilbert Gregory.

In 1836 Isaac Taylor contested the chair of logic at Edinburgh University with Sir William Hamilton, and was narrowly beaten.

Isaac Taylor was elected an International Member of the American Philosophical Society in 1895.

Isaac Taylor executed anatomical drawings for a surgeon, and painted miniatures, one a portrait of his sister, another of himself in 1817.

Isaac Taylor is said to have depicted his wife in the heroine.

Isaac Taylor then completed and edited a translation of the Jewish Wars of Josephus by Robert Traill ; it appeared in two sumptuous illustrated volumes, but lost money.

Isaac Taylor was interested in mechanical devices and inventions, and he had a workshop that he fitted up at Stanford Rivers.

Josiah Gilbert, son of Ann Isaac Taylor, was an artist and author.