Isaac taylor biography
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Isaac Taylor
English philosopher, historian, and inventor (1787–1865)
For other people named Isaac Taylor, see Isaac Taylor (disambiguation).
Isaac Taylor, chalk drawing by Josiah Gilbert. | |
| Born | (1787-08-17)17 August 1787 Lavenham |
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| Died | 28 June 1865(1865-06-28) (aged 77) |
| Nationality | British |
Isaac Taylor (17 August 1787 – 28 June 1865) was an English philosophical and historical writer, artist, and inventor.
Life
[edit]He was the eldest surviving son of Isaac Taylor of Ongar. He 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 the family tradition, he was trained as draughtsman and engraver. After a few years' occupation as a designer of book illustrations, he turned to literature as vocation.[1]
From 1812 to 1816 he wintered in the west of England, and he spent most of this time at Ilfracombe and Marazion in the company of his sister, Jane. About 1815 throu
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Isaac Taylor was an English writer, specialising in poetry and philosophical history. This supremely talented man was also an inventor of a variety of mechanical objects including a beer tap and a copper engraving device which was used in textile printing. He was also an artist, producing a wide variety of work including illustrations for various books, anatomical drawings for surgeons and portrait miniatures.
He was born on the 17th August 1787 in the Suffolk town of Lavenham, the son of an engraver and children’s writer. The family moved twice during his early years, firstly to Colchester and then to Ongar, both locations in the county of Essex. Although Taylor’s education was disrupted he followed his father into engraving and also trained as a draughtsman. He spent a number of years illustrating books before finally turning to writing.
While in his mid-twenties he developed an interest in patristic literature, this being the work of religious men who were also known as
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Isaac Taylor Tichenor
(b. Spencer County, Ky., Nov. 11, 1825; d. Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 2, 1902). Pastor, educator, home mission sekreterare. The son of James and Margaret (Bennett) Tichenor, he was a descendant of Martin Tichenor, said to have been of French extraction, who took the oath of allegiance at New Haven, Conn., in 1644 and was later one of the settlers of Newark, N. J. Martin’s great-grandson Daniel, grandfather of Isaac, moved from New Jersey to Kentucky in 1790. At the age of 15 Isaac entered Taylorsville Academy, where he was beneath two able teachers, Moses and David Burbank, graduates of Waterville College, a Baptist school in Maine, and there received good training. An attack of measles, however, ended his schooling and left him with infirmities which troubled him for a long time. When he was sufficiently recovered, he engagerad in teaching in a neighborhood school and was for three years connected with the Taylorsville Academy, as principal the gods year.
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