Poet and school teacher. Author of *Pontia: A Tale, and Other Poems* (1837). Preface
to this volume is dated “Anstruther Wester, 27th October 1837” (a small coastal town
in Fife, Scotland) and dedicated “To Mrs General Durham of Largo,” suggesting that
Taylor is a Scottish poet. See also the headnote to his entry in *The Book of Scottish
Song*, ed. by Alexander Whitelaw, Blackie and Son, 1844, p. 378. (AC)