PHILIP MEADOWS TAYLOR BIOGRAPHY
PHILIP MEADOWS TAYLOR BIOGRAPHY from the Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John Cousin.
TAYLOR, PHILIP MEADOWS (1808-1876). —Novelist, born at Liverpool, s. of a merchant there. When still a boy went out to a mercantile situation in Calcutta, but in 1826 got a commission in the army of the Nizam of Hyderabad. From this he rose to a high civil position in the service of the Nizam, and entirely reorganised his government. He wrote several striking novels dealing with Indian life, including Confessions of a Thug (1639), Tara , and A Noble Queen . He left an autobiography, The Story of my Life , ed. by his dau.