6—Alfred Swaine Taylor (1806–1880)

Bettany G. T. (1885): Eminent Doctors: Their Lives and Work, London: John Hogg, Vol. II, pp. 291–294.

Biographical Note (1885) The Medico-Legal Journal (New York) 3, 140. (This brief note is signed “T. S.”.—possibly Thomas Stevenson, who was a corresponding member of the Medico-Legal Society of New York.)

Brittain Robert (1961): Bibliography of Medico-Legal Works in English. (This manuscript, unique and invaluable, a copy of which was kindly made available by the author, has now been published by Sweet & Maxwell, Ltd. under the auspices of the British Academy of Forensic Sciences.)

Obituary (1880) Brit. Med. J. 1, 905–906.

Obituary (1880) Edinburgh Medical Journal, CCCI, 94–96.

Obituary (1880) Lancet 1, 897.

Obituary (1880) Med. Times and Gazette 1, 642–643, 653, 671–673.

Parry Leonard A. (1927): Some Famous Medical Trials, London: J. & A. Churchill, passim.

Webb W. W. (1898): Dictionary of National Biography, London: Smith Elder & Co., Vol. LV, pp. 402–403.

Wilks Samuel Bettany G. T. (1892): A Biographical History of Guy's Hospital, London: Ward, Lock, Bowden & Co., passim.

Taylor's expert testimony is fairly extensively reported in the pertinent volumes of Notable British Trials, Edinburgh and London: William Hodge & Co., and sometimes is found in less readily accessible contemporary reports or accounts of celebrated trials.

Good portraits of Taylor are found as frontispieces in Vol. I of 10th and 11th editions of Taylor's Principles and Practice of Medical Jurisprudence, London: J. & A. Churchill, 1948 and 1956 respectively.