General Robert Taylor or Taylour (26 November 1760 – 23 April 1839)[1] styled The Honourable from birth, was an Irish soldier and politician.
[4] He served with his regiment first in Ireland, then from 1793 in the French Revolutionary Wars in Flanders and Germany, being brevetted colonel in 1796.
[4] During the Irish Rebellion of 1798 Taylour was promoted to brigadier-general in Ireland, and was second in command in the Battle of Ballinamuck, where he was mentioned in dispatches by his superior, General Lake[4] In 1801, he became major-general, and saw service in Ireland from 1803 to 1808, when he became a lieutenant-general.
[4] Taylour was brevetted a full general in August 1819[5] and received the colonelcy of the 6th Regiment of Dragoons Guards two years later.
[6] In 1790, he was elected to the Irish House of Commons for Kells, the same constituency his father and his older brother Hercules had represented before, and sat as Member of Parliament (MP) until 1800.