Henry Taylor

Sir Henry Taylor (October 18, 1800 - March 27, 1886) was an English dramatist.

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Taylor was son of a gentleman farmer in County Durham. After being at sea for some months and in the Naval Stores Department, he became a clerk in the Colonial Office, and remained there for 48 years, during which he exercised considerable influence on the colonial policy of the British Empire. In 1872 he was made K.C.M.G. He wrote four tragedies ? Isaac Comnenus (1827), Philip van Artevelde (1834), Edwin the Fair (1842), and St. Clement's Eve (1862); also a romantic comedy, The Virgin Widow, which he renamed A Sicilian Summer, The Eve of the Conquest and other Poems (1847). In prose he published The Statesman (1836), Notes from Life (1847), Notes from Books (1849), and an autobiography. Of all these Philip van Artevelde was perhaps the most successful. Taylor was a man of great ability and distinction, but his dramas, with many of the qualities of good poetry, lack the final touch of genius.

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