Portrait of John Taylor

People/engineer, financier

John Taylor

John Taylor (1779–1863), engineer, financier, from United Kingdom.

The lucky break

Became manager of Wheal Friendship mine at Tavistock in 1798.1,2,3

Legacy

Founded the consolidated mines at Gwennap in 1819. Treasurer of the Geological Society from 1816 to 1844, fellow of the Royal Society from 1825 and a founder of the British Association. He wrote Statements concerning the Profits of Mining in England (1825) and edited Records of Mining (1829).1,2,3

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Places

Worked atCornwall and West Devon Mining LandscapeHe ran Wheal Friendship at 19 and wrote the book on mining profits.1

Sources

  1. Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900: Taylor, Philip (includes John Taylor, 1779-1863) Wikisource (public domain source text)
  2. Wikidata item Q6260357
  3. File pages and licence metadata for portraits (via the Commons imageinfo/extmetadata API) Wikimedia Commons

Pictures on this page: John Taylor (civil engineer).jpg, Mezzotint by Thomas Lawrence after Charles Turner (CC BY 4.0).

From the Prospector Trails mining history dataset: each fact links to the source it was checked against. Figures are as the source gives them, in the money of their day. Not investment advice.

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