Brook Pakenham Taylor 
(1846-1923). 

[This portrait does not appear in the Silvy daybooks in the archives of the National Portrait Gallery. An inked inscription verso in a period hand identifies the sitter as: ‘Brook Pakenham Taylor / 1860.’]

Born in London on 31 October 1846, Brook Pakenham Bridges Taylor was the son of Bridges Taylor and his wife Emily Alice Taylor née Halkett. He was baptised at St Peter's, Eaton Square, on 6 April 1847. 

On 27 May 1879 he married Marian Charlotte Mary Tuite, daughter of Joseph Tuite and his wife Ellen Mary née Chawner. 

‘TAYLOR—TUITE — May 27, at St Mary’s Leamington, by the Rev. George W. Kitchen [sic], of Christ Church, Oxford, ‘…] Brook Pakenham Bridges Taylor, only son of Bridges Taylor, Esq., late her Brittanic Majesty’s Consul for Denmark, to Marian Charlotte May, only daughter of Joseph Tuite, Esq., D.L., of Sonno, Westmeath, Ireland’ (Coleshill Chronicle, 31 May 1879). 

He died, aged 76, on 17 January 1923 at the Grosvenor Hotel, Westminster. 

‘Mr Brook Pakenham Bridges Taylor, of Lower Belgrave-street, Eaton-square, Gentleman Usher to Queen Victoria, King Edward and King George, who died worth £9625, bequeathed “To my good friend, E.A. Canham, £25 as a slight token of my esteem and my warm appreciation of the sympathy and invaluable assistance in breaking up my home”’ (Westminister Gazette, 19 March 1923) .

[Another portrait from this sitting, with a comical and topical inscription, appears on page 35 of this section.]