Brook Taylor (diplomat)

Brook Taylor (diplomat)

Sir Brook Taylor, GCH, PC (30 December 1776 – 15 October 1846) was a British diplomat.

Taylor was a son of Reverend Edward Taylor (1734–1798) and a younger brother of Sir Herbert Taylor. He joined the diplomatic service under the patronage of Lord Grenville, and was British minister to Cologne and Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel) in 1801–6, to Denmark in 1807, to Württemberg in 1814–20 and to Bavaria in 1820–27. He was minister to Prussia in 1827–30, was appointed a GCH in 1822 and sworn of the Privy Council in 1829. He died, unmarried, at Eaton Place, London, on 15 October 1846.

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