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Occupation General surgeon
Details 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, and then proceeded to London 'to walk the hospitals'. He chose St Bartholomew's Hospital, where Abernethy was then full Surgeon, and for him he conceived an intense regard. After qualifying he was appointed Resident Surgeon to the Birmingham General Dispensary, from which office he retired to take up general practice at Bennett's Hill in the town. He was Hon Secretary to the Midland Medical Benevolent Society. In 1876 he removed to Sutton Coldfield in order to reside near his daughter, wife of the Rev Albert Smith, Head Master of Sutton Grammar School. Dr Johnson, the friend of Hector, whose sister was the lexicographer's first love, would have applauded Taylor in his choice of books, in which "he preserved his faith", as he told a venerable Birmingham surgeon. These were three only - the works of Jeremy Taylor, from whom he claimed descent; the works of Abernethy, which he must have known by heart; and the Bible. Taylor died at Sutton Coldfield on December 29th, 1890.
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First Title value, for Searching Taylor, Thomas (1814 - 1892)

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Occupation Chemist General surgeon
Details 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 held for many years. He was a Fellow of the Royal Medico-Chirurgical, Astronomical, and Chemical Societies. Taylor was connected with the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons as early as 1838, when he was employed on the *Catalogue of the Calculi, or Concretions*. In February, 1845, he was paid £100 honorarium for this work, and in October of the same year received a further honorarium of £100. *The Catalogue of Concretions in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons*, as he afterwards called it, being now completed, he wrote a farewell letter to the Museum Committee. His name does not appear in the lists of College Officers, but in February, 1844, we find him reporting to the Museum Committee on certain experiments he had made on the preservation of specimens put up under a high pressure. The full title of Taylor's catalogue is: *A Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue of the Calculi and other Animal Concretions contained in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons in London* (2 vols, 4th, coloured plates, London, 1842 and 1845). Taylor died at his residence, Warwick House, Warwick Place, Grove End Road, NW, on March 6th, 1892.
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