Taylor, Michael Angelo, 1757-1834

TAYLOR, MICHAEL ANGELO, only son of Sir Robert Taylor, Kt, Spring Gardens, Charing Cross, London, architect, and Elizabeth --- (IGI); bapt. St. Martin’s in the Fields 13 Jul 1757 (IGI); adm. 13 Jan 1766; Corpus Christi Coll. Oxford, matr. 21 Oct 1774, aged 17; BA 1778; MA (from St. Johnís Coll. ) 1781; adm. Inner Temple 19 Jan 1769; migr. to Lincoln’s Inn 30 Nov 1770, called to bar 12 Nov 1774; Recorder of Poole 1784; MP Poole 1784-90, Heytesbury 22 Dec 1790 - Feb 1791, Poole 25 Feb 1791-6, Albeburgh 1796 ñ Mar 1800, Durham 17 Mar 1800-2, Rye 1806-7, Ilchester 1807-12, Poole 1812-8, Durham 1818-31, Sudbury from 1832; Privy Councillor 23 Feb 1831; entered House of Commons as a supporter of Pitt, but soon became a convinced and active Whig politician; one of managers of impeachment of Warren Hastings (qv); drew attention to delays in Chancery and to the defective paving and lighting of London streets; the Metropolitan Paving Act, 1817, was long remembered as “Michael Angelo Taylor’s Act”; FSA 26 Mar 1789; m. 7 Aug 1789 Frances Anne, dau. of Rev. Sir Harry Vane, Bart., Prebendary of Durham; d. 16 Jul 1834. DNB.

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