TAYLOR, Joseph (?1693-1746), of East and West Ogwell, Denbury, Devon.

In 1734 Taylor contested Ashburton unsuccessfully in conjunction with his wife’s uncle, Richard Reynell, who died in 1735, leaving his estates to be sold for the benefit of Taylor’s wife. Next year he purchased these estates as the ‘absolute estate of inheritance—in Devon or elsewhere’ which he was required to settle upon her and his eldest son under the terms of his marriage settlement.PCC 193 Edmunds. Returned unopposed for Ashburton in 1739, presumably as an anti-ministerial Whig, he was one of the Members who withdrew from the House before the division on the motion for Walpole’s dismissal in February 1741. He did not stand again, dying 6 May 1746.