Thomas Taylor (1769/70–1841)
Surgeon-apothecary. Trained in London with the surgeon Henry Cline. Eloped with Lady Lucy Rachael Stanhope (1780–1814), youngest daughter of Charles Stanhope, third Earl Stanhope, in 1796. Appointed comptroller of the Customs by William Pitt the younger, his wife’s uncle. Father of John Pitt Taylor.
Sources
B. B. Cooper 1843, 1: 181, 182, 186
England, select marriages, 1538–1973 (Ancestry.com, accessed 22 November 2020)
ODNB s.v. Stanhope, Charles, third Earl Stanhope
Surrey, England, Church of England baptisms, marriages and burials, 1538–1812 (Ancestry.com, accessed 22 November 2020)
UK and Ireland, Find a grave index, 1300s–current (Ancestry.com, accessed 22 November 2020)