Edgar Taylor (translator)

Edgar Taylor (1793–1839) was a British solicitor and author of legal, historical, literary works and translations. He was the first translator of Kinder- und Hausmärchen published in 1812 by the Brothers Grimm, into English, as German Popular Stories in 1823. In 1826 he translated the second volume (1814) of the Kinder- und Hausmärchen .

He was the fifth son of Samuel Taylor, who was a grandson of John Taylor, born at Banham, Norfolk, on 28 January 1793. He was at school at Palgrave under Charles Lloyd. In 1809 he was articled to his uncle, Meadows Taylor, a solicitor of Diss, Norfolk. He had mastered Italian and Spanish before coming to London in 1814; subsequently he learnt German and French.

In 1817, with Robert Roscoe, a son of William Roscoe, Taylor set up the firm of Taylor & Roscoe, solicitors, in King's Bench Walk, Inner Temple. His legal career prospered, mainly in equity practice, was prosperous. Contracting in 1827 an incurable disease, he was compelled (from 1832) to give up much of his professional work.

After long suffering, Taylor died at Bedford Row, London on 19 August 1839, and was buried in Highgate cemetery.

Taylor was an original member of the "Noncon Club", founded in July 1817 by Robert Aspland to advance religious freedom, and co-operated with Aspland in ecclesiastical politics, working for the legal recognition of the rights of nonconformists. As a dissenting deputy he took part in the movement for repeal (1828) of the Test and Corporation Acts; in 1837 he was appointed a commissioner (unpaid) for carrying out the Dissenters' Marriage Act.

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