Thomas William Taylor (British Army officer)
Thomas William Taylor | |
|---|---|
Major-General | |
| Battles/wars | Napoleonic Wars |
| Awards | Companion of the Order of the Bath |
Lieutenant-Governor of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst
.
Military career
He was educated at
Lieutenant-Governor of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.[3]
He served as a
Groom of the Bedchamber to King William IV from 1832 to the accession of Queen Victoria in 1837[4] and as Colonel of the 17th Lancers from 1852 to his death.[5]
Marriage and progeny
On 14 January 1810 at St. George's Church in
Madras, India, he married Anne Harvey Petrie, a daughter of John Petrie, by whom he had progeny including:[6]
- Pierce Gilbert Edward Taylor (1810–1890), Bengal Civil Service.[7]
- Arthur Joseph Taylor (1812–1873), a Captain in the Royal Artillery.[8]
- Anne Frances Taylor (d.1861) wife of Sir Walter Palk Carew, 8th Baronet (1807–1874) of Haccombe in Devon, whose funerary hatchment survives in Haccombe Church showing the arms of Carew impaling Taylor (Sable, a lion passant argent a label of three points azure) where they are also shown in a stained glass window dedicated to Anne Frances Taylor.
- Georgiana Jane Taylor,[9] wife of Robert Verney, 17th Baron Willoughby de Broke (1809–1862) of Compton Verney in Warwickshire.
Death
He died on 8 January 1854 and was buried at St Mary the Virgin Churchyard in Denbury in Devon.[2]
References
- ^ "The History of the Building". Gaia House. 25 August 2013. Retrieved 31 August 2017.
- ^ a b c d e "Descendent stories". Waterloo 200. Retrieved 20 December 2015.
- ^ "No. 19465". The London Gazette. 10 February 1837. p. 328.
- ^ "Court officers" (PDF). Retrieved 25 April 2016.
- ^ "17th Lancers (Duke of Cambridge's Own)". regiments.org. Archived from the original on 26 December 2005. Retrieved 9 February 2017.
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- ^ "Person Page". Thepeerage.com. Retrieved 31 August 2017.