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abilities of the family found expression in his case in a 

 number of works : " Confessions of a Thug," " Manual of 

 Indian History," " Tara," "Ralph Darnell," " Tippoo 

 Sultaun," and " Seeta." His autobiography, " The Story 

 of IVIy Life," was edited by his daughter, Miss A. M. 

 Taylor. 



Returning to Dr. John Taylor, of the Warrington 

 Academy, it will be seen that he had several grandsons, 

 the children of his only surviving son Richard. The 

 eldest of these was the Rev. Philip Taylor, who was the 

 grandfather of Colonel Meadows Taylor ; another was 

 Samuel, the father of Edgar Taylor, F.S.A.; another was 

 Mr. John Taylor, the grandfather of Lady Duff Gordon ; 

 another was the Thomas Taylor, whom, as a }'outh of 

 sixteen, we find writing from Liverpool, where he had 

 apparently begun a business career in the house of Mr. 

 Thomas Earle, a merchant dealing with Leghorn and 

 Genoa, who was the second surviving son of John Earle, 

 one of the founders of the mercantile greatness of Liver- 

 pool at the beginning of the last centur}\ 



From William, a younger brother of Thomas Earle, is 

 descended the titled family resident at Allerton Tower, of 

 which General Earle, who commanded the Nile expedi- 

 tion for the relief of Gordon, and who was killed in 

 the .Soudan, was a member. Thomas Earle, who was 

 born in 17 19, became established as a merchant at Leg- 

 horn, where he resided for many years, and where his two 

 daughters, Maria and Elizabeth Jane (to whom there are 

 constant references in these letters) were born in 1761 and 

 1764 respectivel}'. In 1754 he married Mar)-, the only 

 daughter and heiress of Adam Mort, of Wharton Hall. 

 She was born in 1726, her mother being a daughter of 

 George Leigh, of Oughtrington Hall, Cheshire, by the 

 latter's first wife. xAnother daughter, Sarah, was the 



