QUERY1850
London Dissenting Ministers: Rev. Thomas Tailer
By W.
Not being entirely successful in my Queries with regard to "London Dissenting Ministers" (Vol. i., pp. 383. 444. 454.), I will state a circumstance which, possibly, may assist some one of your correspondents in furnishing an answer to the second of those inquiries. In the lines immediately referred to, where certain Nonconformist ministers of the metropolis are described under images taken from the vegetable world, the late Rev. Thomas Tailer (of Carter Lane), whose voice was feeble and trembling, is thus spoken of:— "Tailer tremulous as aspen leaves." But in verses afterwards circulated, if n…
Topics: London Dissenting Ministers, Nonconformist Ministers, Victorian Poetry
Locations: London, Carter Lane