Clement Taylor (c. 1745–April 1804), of Tovil House,

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, was an English paper-maker and politician who sat in the

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from 1780 to 1796. Taylor was the son of Clement Taylor, a paper-maker of Wrotham, Kent and his wife Sarah Quelch, daughter of William Quelch, paper-maker, of Dartford. He followed his father into the paper-making business, with large scale manufacture at mills at

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, near Maidstone. Taylor was returned as

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for

after a contest at the 1780 general election. He was returned as an Independent but became a member of the Whig club in 1784. He succeeded in contests again in

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and

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. Towards the end of this Parliament, he was running into difficulties in his business and decided not to stand in the 1796 general election. In 1793 Taylor set up a paper-making partnership in Ireland which was unsuccessful. He went bankrupt in 1797, and died unmarried in Dublin in April 1804.

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