[2] Taylor returned to business three years later with an apprenticeship to two local manufacturers until 1768, when he left Norwich for a job as a bank-clerk in London, at Dinsdale, Archer and Ryde.

[2] In 1781 he was elected to the Board of Guardians,[1] an organisation responsible for administering and distributing funds of parish workhouses, places where people who were unable to support themselves could go to live and work.

In 1784, having restored the family fortunes, Taylor and his first cousin, surgeon Philip Meadows Martineau, took an active part in the foundation of the Norwich Public Library.

Taylor first sung his song The Trumpet of Liberty at the famous Whig banquet at Holkham Hall on 5 November, 1788 to celebrate the centenary of the English Revolution.

The Duke of Sussex "called on Taylor" to sing his song again on January 20, 1820 at "a great public dinner at St Andrews Hall, Norwich".

If the same bitter cup be preparing for me, what better can I wish than that I may quit the world with his composed spirit and his widow on the good providence of God!Taylor suffered many years of illness and found himself bedridden for a time.

[10] Others to be found there were William Enfield, and some early supporters of the French Revolution: Edward Rigby, James Alderson, his daughter Amelia and her husband artist John Opie who painted for Taylor a portrait of Robert Southey.