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TAUNTON, SIR WILLIAM ELIAS, eldest son of Sir William Elias Taunton, Kt, Town Clerk of Oxford, and Frances, dau. of Stephen Grosvenor, Sub-Treasurer, Christ Church, Oxford; bapt. 28 Sep 1772; adm. 15 Jan 1785; KS 1785; one of the founders of The Trifler; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1789, matr. 12 Jun 1789, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1789 - void 25 Jun 1801; Chancellor’s Prize for English Essay 1793; BA 1793; MA 1796; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 25 Jan 1794, called to bar 3 May 1799, Bencher 30 Jan 1822 - 11 Nov 1830; Oxford Circuit; Commissioner of Bankrupts 1801 (occurs in annual lists 1802-22); Recorder of Oxford 1806; KC Hilary 1822; Serjeant-at-Law 11 Nov 1830; Judge of the King’s Bench from 12 Nov 1830; knighted 17 Nov 1830; assisted in preparing the Record Commission’s edition of The Statutes of the Realm, published 1810-22; author, Remarks upon the Conduct of the respective Governments of France and Great Britain in the late Negotiation for Peace, 1797; m. 10 Oct 1814 Maria, youngest dau. of Henry William Atkinson, Provost, Company of Moneyers, Royal Mint; d. 11 Jan 1835. DNB.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.