page_title: Richard Taylor (British Army officer)
section_title: Private life
hierarchical_section_title: Richard Taylor (British Army officer) / Private life
caption_attribution_description: English: Colonel, The Rt. Hon. Thomas Edward Taylor, M.P. Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.
context_page_description: General Sir Richard Chambré Hayes Taylor GCB was a senior British Army officer who served in the Second Anglo-Burmese War, the Crimean War and the Indian Mutiny. Joining the General Staff in 1860, he was the British Army's Inspector General of Recruiting, then Deputy Adjutant-General to the Forces, briefly Adjutant-General, and finally for three years Governor of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He was also Colonel of the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders and the East Surrey Regiment.
  Some members of the family preferred the spelling Taylour.
context_section_description: Taylor's elder brother, Thomas Edward Taylor, of Ardgillan Castle, Dublin, became member of parliament for County Dublin, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and Commandant of the Royal Meath Militia. Taylor's father died in 1852 and his mother on 22 March 1859. The Rev. James Aberigh Mackay met Taylor in India in 1859 and later wrote of him in From London to Lucknow (1860): "Colonel Taylor of the 79th, one of the most agreeable men in the army..."
  On 10 June 1863, Taylor married Lady Jane Hay, a daughter of Field Marshal the Marquess of Tweeddale. They had one son and four daughters. In 1872, they were living at number 16, Eaton Place, Westminster. Taylor also owned some 1,300 acres of land in County Meath, Ireland. Lady Jane Taylor survived her husband until 1920.
  Taylor's brothers-in-law included Arthur Hay, 9th Marquess of Tweeddale, Admiral of the Fleet Lord John Hay, and the Liberal member of parliament George Hay, Earl of Gifford, while his sisters-in-law were married to James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie, a Governor-General of India, Arthur Wellesley, 2nd Duke of Wellington, Sir Robert Peel, 3rd Baronet, and Simon Watson Taylor, of Erlestoke, Wiltshire. Taylor's five children were Constance Mary Jane (married Ronald William Murray, died 1950), Millicent Lilla Harriet (born 1867 died 1948), Evelyn Beatrice Charlotte (died 1944 unmarried), Florence Virginia Mathilde (died 1952 unmarried) and Richard Edward Montagu Taylor (1872–1953). His son Richard joined the East Surrey Regiment and fought in the Second Boer War and the First World War.
caption: His brother, Thomas Edward Taylor, MP
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