TOM TAYLOR BIOGRAPHY

TAYLOR, TOM (1817-1880). —Dramatist, born at Sunderland, ed. at Glasgow and Camb., and was Prof. of English Literature in London Univ. from 1845-47. In 1846 he was called to the Bar, and from 1854-71 he was Sec. to the Local Government Board. He was the author of about 100 dramatic pieces, original and adapted, including Still Waters run Deep , The Overland Route , and Joan of Arc . He was likewise a large contributor to Punch , of which he was ed. 1874-80, and he ed. the autobiographies of Haydon and Leslie, the painters, and wrote Life and Times of Sir Joshua Reynolds .