Robert Wright Taylor (b.21 November 1859) was a British solicitor.

Biography

Taylor was the only son of Robert Taylor (1815-1890) and Sarah Maw and grew up in

Stanbury Stanbury is a village in the Haworth, Cross Roads and Stanbury civil parish, and in the metropolitan borough of the City of Bradford in West Yorkshire, England. The name Stanbury translates as ''Stone Fort'' from Old English. Geography The ...

, West Yorkshire. The Taylor family were on good social terms with the Brontë family, and Branwell Brontë had painted a portrait of Taylor's father as a young man. Taylor was educated at

Trinity College, Cambridge Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1546 by Henry VIII, King Henry VIII, Trinity is one of the largest Cambridge colleges, with the largest financial endowment of any college at either Cambridge ...

and worked as a solicitor. Taylor purchased

Baysgarth House Baysgarth House Museum is a local museum located in Baysgarth House, situated in Baysgarth Park, in the market town of Barton-upon-Humber, Lincolnshire, England.

in Barton-upon-Humber in 1889 and lived there with his family. An entry in the school log for Stanbury Boarding School in Haworth on 6 September 1912 records a visit by Taylor with his wife and two children. It records that Taylor had just purchased Ponden Hall and that he gifted eight book prizes each year to the school. Robert Wright Taylor and his wife Clara Louisa are commemorated, along with their son George Robert Marmaduke Stanbury Taylor (who died at the

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), by their daughter Clare Ermyntrude Magdalen Wight Ramsden on a plaque at Baysgarth House. Clare donated the house and its gardens to the public in July 1930. The opening ceremony was attended by more than 3000 people. Taylor was a Fellow of the

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References

{{reflist 1859 births Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London People from Barton-upon-Humber People from West Yorkshire British solicitors Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Year of death missing