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Sir John Taylor FRS (1745 – 8 May 1786) was a fellow of the Royal Society who was created a baronet of Lysson Hall in Jamaica. He lived in London but he died in Jamaica. ==Life== Taylor was born in Jamaica in 1745 to Patrick and Martha Taylor. His Scottish father had been born with the surname ''Tailzour'' in Borrowfield, but he took his wife's name when they married. His eldest brother became a Jamaican attorney who represented the large number of absentee plantation owners and he was reputedly the richest person in Jamaica. Simon Taylor who owned his own plantations also served in the Jamaican assembly.〔(Taylor family of Jamaica (1770-1835) ), Casbah.ac.uk, retrieved 23 October 2014〕 John Taylor was captured in a painting by Johann Zoffany of the Tribuna of the Uffizi in Florence in the 1770s. He appears to the right of the painting with Thomas Patch and Sir Horace Mann, 1st Baronet.〔( A key to the people shown ), oneonta.edu, retrieved 17 October 2014〕 Taylor became a baronet on 1 September 1778. In the same year he married an heiress, Elizabeth Godden Houghton.〔(Sir John Taylor ), British Museum, retrieved 22 October 2014〕 They eventually had six children. In 1813 Simon Taylor died and left his vast fortune to John Taylor's son, He died in 1813 and left his estates to John's son Simon and not to his own large illegitimate family, who were occasionally included.〔(Extended Families: Mixed-Race Children and Scottish Experience, 1770-1820 ), Daniel Livesay, International Journal of Scottish Literature, Spring/Summer 2008〕 John Taylor's son only lived until 1815 which was the end of the baronetcy. The fortune was inherited by John Taylor's daughter, Anna. Anna Susannah Watson Taylor had married but her husband George Watson had taken her surname.〔 Taylor was on a visit to the Lyssons plantation in Jamaica when he died in 1786〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.ampltd.co.uk/collections_az/Plantation-Life-1/description.aspx )〕 and his title was taken by his son. The year before he died he and his family were sketched in pastels by Daniel Gardner. The group consisted of Taylor, his wife Elizabeth, his brother Simon Taylor, and four of his children; Simon Richard Brisset, Anna Susanna, Elizabeth and Maria. Simon became the second and last baronet of Lysson Hall. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sir John Taylor, 1st Baronet」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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