John Tailor

John Tailor, an English author, called " the water poet," born in Gloucester in 1580, died in London in 1654. He was educated at the free school of Gloucester, and was apprenticed to a London waterman, an occupation which he followed during the greater part of his life. In 1596 he served in the fleet under the earl of Essex, and was present at the attack upon Cadiz. After his return he plied on the Thames, and collected the lieutenant of the towels demand on imported wines. Subsequently he kept a public house in Phoenix lane, Long Acre. His publications, in prose and in verse, amounting to upward of 80, are of value as illustrations of opinions and manners during the first half of the 17th century. They were published in folio in 1630. Two of the most curious of his prose works are devoted to descriptions of a journey on foot to Scotland in 1618, and of another, made principally in a boat, from London to Hereford in 1641.

John Taylor

John Taylor, an English minister, born near Lancaster in 1694, died at Warrington, March 5, 1761. He was educated at Whitehaven, and settled for 18 years as teacher and minister at Kirkstead in Lincolnshire. In 1733 he was chosen pastor of a Presbyterian congregation at Norwich, where he preached for 24 years, and avowed anti-Trinitarian sentiments. In 1757 he became principal of the dissenting academy at Warrington. His principal published works are: " The Scripture Doctrine of Original Sin" (1738); "A Paraphrase on the Epistle to the Romans" (1745); "The Scripture Doctrine of the Atonement" (1750); " An Hebrew English Concordance" (2 vols, fol., 1754-'7); and "A Scheme of Scripture Divinity" (1762), edited by his son.

John Thelwall

John Thelwall, an English author, born in London, July 27, 1704, died in Bath, Feb. 17, 1834. In his 22d year he abandoned the profession of law for literature. In 1787 he published "Poems" (2 vols.); and embracing liberal opinions, he became a member of the "Corresponding Society." Taking a prominent part in the political agitation of the times, he was prosecuted for high treason along with John Home Tooke and Thomas Hardy, and after a trial of live days was acquitted. He afterward lectured on political subjects, and in 1801 began to act as tutor of elocution. His works include "The Peripatetic" (3 vols. 12mo, 1793); "The Tribune" (3 vols. 8vo, 1790); "Poems, with Memoir of his Life " (1802); " The Daughter of Adoption," a novel; essays on the treatment of imperfections in speech, etc. - His son Algernon Sydney (1795-1863), a clergyman of the established church and teacher of elocution, published religious works, "Iniquities of the Opium Trade" (1839), etc.

John Thomas Quekett

John Thomas Quekett, an English micro-scopist, born at Langport, Somersetshire, in 1815, died at Pangbourne, Berkshire, Aug. 20, 1861. He entered London hospital as a student in 1831, and became a licentiate of the apothecaries' company and member of the royal college of surgeons. The latter body having established a studentship of human and comparative anatomy, he was unanimously elected to it, and in 1843 was appointed assistant conservator of the Hunterian museum, and on Professor Owen's retirement in 1856 conservator of the museum and professor of histology. He was chosen a fellow of the royal society in 1860. He published "Practical Treatise on the Use of the Microscope" (8vo, 1848; new ed., 1865); "Lectures on Histology" (2 vols. 8vo, 1852-4); and an "Illustrated Catalogue of Specimens in the College Museum in Lincoln's Inn Fields".