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who nursed her delicate husband chu-ing his hfe, and, after- 

 wards, aided by the notes of the oric^inal lectures taken by 

 John Stuart Mill, edited and placed before the public the 

 remarkable "Lectures on Jurisprudence, or the Philosophy 

 of Positive Law." Mrs. Austin, as may be imagined, took 

 a distinguished place in London literary society. Her 

 daughter, Lucie Austin, became Lady Duff Gordon, and 

 sustained the literary reputation of her mother's family in 

 the celebrated " Letters from Egypt." Another daughter of 

 Mrs. John Taylor married Dr. Reev^e, and their son was the 

 translator of De Tocqueville's " Democracy in America." 

 The sons of Mr. and Mrs. John Taylor all achieved con- 

 siderable distinction. The eldest was John, a mining 

 engineer and a chemical manufacturer. He was elected 

 a Fellow of the Geological Society in 1807, ^'^d became 

 a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1S25. He was one of 

 the founders of Lniiversity College, London, and was for 

 many years its treasurer. He also helped to found the 

 British Association, and was its treasurer until 1861. 

 Richard Taylor, the second son, was the founder of the 

 printing and publishing firm of Taylor and Francis, and 

 was in 1810 secretary of the Linnean Society; he was a 

 philosophical and scientific writer of some note. The 

 third son, Edward, was the Gresham Professor of Music. 

 The fourth son, Philip, was a civil and mechanical 

 engineer with a world-wide reputation. He had a large 

 and interesting circle of friends, among whom were 

 Brunei, James Nasmyth, Michael Faraday, Wheatstone, 

 Gay-Lussac, Arago, and many others almost equally 

 eminent.* The other son, ^Arthur, was an antiquary and a 

 printer. 



Another member of the famil}- was Edgar Taylor, 

 F.S.A., the translator of Grimm's " Fairy Tales " and " Lays 

 of the Minnesingers"; the author of the " Chronicle of the 



* ■' Dictionary of National Biography " 



