GEORGE BORROW'S NORWICH--THE TAYLORS With the famous 'Taylors of Norwich' Borrow seems to have had no acquaintance, although he went to school with a connection of that family, James Martineau.

These socially important Taylors were in no way related to William Taylor of that city, who knew German literature, and scandalised the more virtuous citizens by that, and perhaps more by his fondness for wine and also for good English beer--a drink over which his friend Borrow was to become lyrical.

When people speak of the Norwich Taylors they refer to the family of Dr.John Taylor, who in 1783 was elected to the charge of the Presbyterian congregation in Norwich.

His eldest son, Richard, married Margaret, the daughter of a mayor of Norwich of the name of Meadows; and Sarah, another daughter of that same worshipful mayor, married David Martineau, grandson of Gaston Martineau, who fled from France at the time of the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes.[35] Harriet and James Martineau were grandchildren of this David.

The second son of Richard and Margaret Taylor was John, who married Susannah Cook.