Very odd, I heard exactly the same information given in a talk recently, down to Carlyle's House and Petworth.
William Taylor's diary is well worth reading: it, or extracts from it, have been published. I do wonder what sort of home life he had, as he is never with his wife and sons on any of the censuses, and you certainly would not guess his marital state from the diary.
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