John Edward Taylor was the founder of the "Manchester Guardian" newspaper, later to become "The Guardian". He was born at Ilminster, Somerset, England, to Mary Scott, the poet, and John Taylor, a Unitarian minister. He was apprenticed to a cotton manufacturer in Manchester, and later became a successful merchant. A moderate supporter of reform, he witnessed the Peterloo massacre in 1819. Wikipedia
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