St John's Church, Stratford, E15
St John's Church, Stratford, London E15


Photo of John & Samuel Taylor Memorial

IN MEMORY OF
THE LATE JOHN TAYLOR ESQR
OF THIS TOWN :
WHO DIED 14TH AUGUST 1846, AGED 72 :
WHOSE REMAINS ARE DEPOSITED
IN A VAULT UNDER THIS CHURCH.

ALSO SAMUEL TAYLOR ESQR
BROTHER OF THE ABOVE,
WHO DIED 25TH JUNE. 1850,
IN THE 87TH YEAR OF HIS AGE.




John Taylor was a mining engineer with a wide range of industrial and scientific interests. He, together with some of his brothers, was central in the early gas industry. With John Martineau he set up a company which made equipment for making gas for lighting from oil. He also invented new methods for refining sugar.

Samuel Taylor trained as a pharmacist and was the developer of numerous chemical processes which the family and their associates were to exploit. They had a chemical works at Stratford.

Another brother, Richard, was the Editor of The Philosophical Magazine.

They lived at Stratford Green. (Pigots 1839, 1848 Whites Trade Directory)


If you have any further information regarding this memorial, or the people named on it, we would be most grateful for a copy of it.

 
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