Factory Acts
He was the son of Richard Taylor, a Youghal manufacturer and he married Marianne Taylor, his first cousin. He had four children, three girls and a boy, Richard Whateley Cooke Taylor, a factory inspector who also went on to write about the factory system in his books "Introduction to a History of the Factory System" (1886), "The Modern Factory System" (1891) and "The Factory System and the Factory Acts" (1894).