Borrow was twenty years of age and living in Norwich when Mrs.
Taylor died.

It is to be regretted that in the early impressionable years his position as a lawyer's clerk did not allow of his coming into a circle in which he might have gained certain qualities of _savoir faire_ and _joie de vivre_, which he was all his days to lack.

Of the Taylor family the Duke of Sussex said that they reversed the ordinary saying that it takes nine tailors to make a man.

The witticism has been attributed to Sydney Smith, but Mrs.Ross gives evidence that it was the Duke's--the youngest son of George III.

In his _Life of Sir James Mackintosh_ Basil Montagu, referring to Mrs.John Taylor, says: Norwich was always a haven of rest to us, from the literary society with which that city abounded.