Robert Wright Taylor

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Robert Wright Taylor FSA (21 November 1859 – 19 March 1929) was a British solicitor. He was the only son of Robert Taylor and Sarah Maw, and he grew up in Stanbury, West Yorkshire. The Taylor family were on good terms with the Brontë family, and Branwell Brontë painted a portrait of Taylor’s father when he was young.

Taylor studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, and later worked as a solicitor. In 1889 he bought Baysgarth House in Barton-upon-Humber and lived there with his family. A Stanbury Boarding School log from 6 September 1912 records a visit by Taylor with his wife and two children, notes that he had just bought Ponden Hall, and mentions that he gave eight book prizes each year to the school.

Robert Wright Taylor and his wife Clara Louisa are commemorated, along with their son George Robert Marmaduke Stanbury Taylor (who died at the Battle of Ypres), by their daughter Clare Ermyntrude Magdalen Wight Ramsden on a plaque at Baysgarth House. Clare donated Baysgarth House and its gardens to the public in July 1930, and the opening ceremony was attended by more than 3,000 people. He was a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.