3744349Men-at-the-Bar — Taylor, John PittJoseph Foster


Taylor, John Pitt, B.A., Christ Church, Oxon, 1834, from Eton, judge of county courts (circuit No. 47) since 1852, author of A Treatise on the Law of Evidence, promoted The Documentary Evidence Act 1845 and The Evidence Act 1851, a student of the Middle Temple 1 Nov., 1833, called to the bar 9 June, 1837 (3rd son of Thomas Taylor, of Coombe, near Croydon); born 30 Dec., 1811; married , 1840, Harriet, 2nd dau. of Francis Shircliffe, Esq., of Wadsley, Yorkshire; she died , 1876.

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