Charles Henry Taylor (21 July 1859 – 27 June 1907) was a British lyricist, best known for his lyrics for early-20th-century West End musical comedies and a comic opera, Tom Jones.
His friend Robert Courtneidge was a producer at a local theatre, and Taylor supplied some topical lyrics for a pantomime production there.
He supplied lyrics for Seymour Hicks's Bluebell in Fairyland (1901), which became the most successful children's entertainment of the era and was revived annually for the next four decades.
Some of the songs such as "For Tonight" (sometimes recorded as "The Tom Jones Waltz"), "The Green Ribbon", and "The West Country Lad" proved to be some of the most popular of Taylor's and German's work.
A song from that work, "Dream 'o Day Jill", became a special addition to Tom Jones to celebrate the 100th night of its run.