William Cooke Taylor, Writer, Journalist, Historian and Anti-Corn Law propagandist. Born at Youghal on the 16th April 1800 and died at 20 Herbert Street, Dublin on the 12th September 1849.[ Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Journal, 1861, p263.] ]He is best known for two works "The Natural History of Society" (1841) and "Factories and the Factory System" (1844). In the late 1830s he toured the northern English industrial centres and wrote considerably for the Anti-Corn Law League [ CHALONER, W. H. in his introduction to the 1968 third edition of Cook Taylor’s Notes of a tour in the manufacturing districts of Lancashire] and his observations of the factories of Manchester and Bolton provide a first hand account of the depression at that time. In 1843 he became the editor of Anti-Corn Law’s "‘The League’". ][ CHALONER, W. H. in his introduction to the 1968 third edition of Cook Taylor’s "Notes of a tour in the manufacturing districts of Lancashire"] ]He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and gained a BA in 1825 and an LL.D in 1835.[ The Gentleman's Magazine, 1850, p94-6.] In 1829 he moved to London and began to contribute regularly to journals such as the "Athenaeum", "Bentley’s Miscellany" and "The Art Journal". In London he worked as his a writer for hire or as his obituary puts it “a writer for his daily bread.” He published profusely throughout his career, writing on religion, history and a number of biographies, most notably that of Sir Robert Peel. He returned to Ireland for the last two years of his life where he worked as a Statistician for the Irish Government before he died of Cholera in 1859.][ The Gentleman's Magazine, 1850, p94-6.] ]He was the son of Richard Taylor, a Youghal manufacturer and he married Marianne Taylor, his first cousin. He had four children, three girls and a boy, Richard Whateley Cook Taylor, a factory inspector who also went on to write about the factory system in his book "Introduction to a history of the factory system".[ [http://www.archive.org/details/introductiontohi00cookuoft| Introduction to a history of the factory system (1886)] ] ]References
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McCord, N (1958). The Anti-Corn Law League, 1838-1846 pp. 185-6
The Gentleman's Magazine, 1850, p94-6
Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Journal, 1861, p263
External links
* [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=E9nAHdO-BggC&pg=PA101&lpg=PA101&dq=William+%22Cooke+Taylor%22&source=web&ots=3MZLhDiQsm&sig=lD1u5oMmNYGl9LLTtMMR1Vr1SKI&hl=en#PPA94,M1| Obituary - The Gentleman's Magazine, 1850, p94-6]
* [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=94375643| Introduction to the 1968 third edition of Cook Taylor’s Notes of a tour in the manufacturing districts of Lancashire]
*Gutenberg author|id=W._C._Taylor|name=William Cooke Taylor
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