William Taylor Money

Sir William Taylor Money (1769 – April 1834) was an English naval captain in the East India Company, superintendent of the Bombay Marine and MP in the British Parliament.

He was the eldest son of Captain William Money of Wood End House, Walthamstow, a director of the East India Company for 1789–96, and Martha, the daughter of James Taylor.

[1] Money was commissioned in the East India Company navy as a lieutenant in the Rose in 1786 and in 1793 he became commander of the General Goddard belonging to Sir Robert Wigram, 1st Baronet, his father's business partner.

On his return to England he established a home in Streatham Park, Surrey and became a Director of the East India Company from 1818 to 1826.

He gave up his Parliamentary seat in March 1826 when appointed consul to the Lombard states but died of cholera in Venice in April 1834.