John Edward Taylor

MS 's son, John Edward Taylor (who became the founder of the Manchester Guardian, later The Guardian), was born at Ilminster in Somerset.

MS 's father was a linen manufacturer, a Dissenter according to most accounts, and a zealous supporter of the civil and religious liberties of Protestant dissenters. Among his brothers was the Rev. Russell Scott ...

John Edward Taylor , said to resemble his mother in temperament, was trained at his father's school in Manchester and apprenticed to a cotton manufacturer there. He was one of the founders of the Junior Literary and Philosophical Society