Taylor was the son of Rev. Edward Taylor of Bifrons, Patrixbourne, Kent and his wife Margaret Payler[1] daughter of Thomas Turner Payler of Ileden, who died at Brussels in 1780.[2] The diplomat Sir Brook Taylor was his younger brother. He joined the 2nd Dragoon Guards as a cornet in 1794.[3] Later that year he was promoted to lieutenant and then the following year to captain.[3] In 1795 he served as assistant secretary and aide de camp to the Duke of York, then commander-in-chief of the British Army.[3] Taylor was later the Duke of York's assistant military secretary, an office he held until 1798.[3] He was later a Major. In 1798 he was made Aide de Camp, Military Secretary and Private Secretary to the Marquess Cornwallis, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.[3] In the following year he returned to the Duke of York's service and remained there until 1805, although he was transferred to the 9th West Indian Regiment as a lieutenant-colonel in 1801.[3]
However, in the following year, with a period of relative calm in the midst of the Napoleonic Wars, he was placed on half pay.[3] In that year he joined the Coldstream Guards, in which he became a brevet colonel in 1810. In 1805 he became private secretary to King George III, and then, from 1811 private secretary to Queen Charlotte, the queen consort.[3] He retained that office until 1818.
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