8 Faraday, Corrcspoiideticc of Lt.-Col. J. L. Pliilips. 



Norman Conquest," the "Book of Rights" ; and a contri- 

 butor to the " Westminster Review." The eldest brother of 

 Mr. John Taylor of Norwich, already referred to as being, 

 with his wife, the literary centre of that town in Macintosh's 

 day, was the Reverend Philip Taylor, who was born at 

 Norwich in 1747, and subsccjuently settled at Old Court, 

 Harold's Court, county Dublin. A son of his was Philip 

 Meadows Taylor, who became a Liverpool merchant at 

 the beginning of this century. He married the youngest 

 daughter of Bertram Mitford, Esq., of Mitford Castle, 

 Northumberland, one of the most ancient Saxon families 

 in the country. Philip Meadows Taylor was educated in 

 Germany, where he learnt the value of the rifle as a military 

 weapon. He subsequently became executive captain of a 

 volunteer rifle corps in Liverpool. He was the first, indeed, 

 to introduce the use of the rifle into this countr\-. Later, 

 meeting with serious financial reverses, he honourably 

 settled his liabilities in full, and giving up his luxurious 

 home in Rodney Street, accepted an appointment as 

 manager of a brewery in Dublin. This change of fortune 

 made it necessary for his son to make his own way in a 

 mercantile house in Bombay, to which place he sailed at 

 the age of fifteen. The length of the voyage in those 

 days allowed him time to begin the study of the native 

 languages of India. Like Robert Clivc, a boy of 

 Lancashire training, he soon abandoned business, and 

 obtained a commission in the Nizam's military contingent. 

 Taylor taught himself land-surveying and engineering, 

 and obtained an exceptional influence over the natives 

 through his knowledge of the languages of Southern 

 India. As Colonel Meadows Ta\'lor, he crossed over 

 into Berar without troops, and, aided by the extraordinary 

 confidence which the natives had in him, saved Southern 

 India from joining in the Mutiny. The hereditary literary 



