Born at Redditch in 1796, and in 1806 accompanied his uncle to Birmingham. The latter had been apprenticed to the well-known surgeon, Edmund Hector, of Old Square, the schoolfellow of Samuel Johnson. Thomas Taylor derived his early training from this uncle and from the Birmingham General Hospital,

Practised for a time at 9 New Bridge Street, EC, where he was Surgeon to the Western City Dispensary. Retiring from this post and also from general practice, he went to live at 4 Vere Street, Cavendish Square, and was appointed Lecturer on Chemistry at the Middlesex Hospital, a position which he hel