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Philip Meadows Taylor (1808–1876)
Taylor, Philip Meadows. An English soldier and author; born in Liverpool, Sept. 25, 1808; died in Mentone, France, May 13, 1876. He spent a great part of his life in India, in the army and other government service, and married an Indian princess. He was the author of: ‘Confessions of a Thug’ (1839); ‘Tippoo Sultaun: A Tale of the Mysore War’ (1840); ‘Notices of Cromlechs, Cairns, and Other Ancient Scytho-Druidical Remains in the Principality of Sorapur’ (1853); ‘Tara: A Mahratta Tale’ (1863); ‘The Student’s Manual of the History of India, from the Earliest Period to the Present’ (1870); and other works.