fiery presentations initially attracted attention, but interest fell away and her lectures finished at the end of April. Later life In 1833 Taylor married an elderly lady of means, but was sued for breach of promise by Georgiana Richards, housekeeper to the Blackfriars Rotunda. To avoid paying £250 damages awarded to Richards, he moved to France and practised as a surgeon at Tours. Darwin recalls Taylor Taylor would be remembered by Charles Darwin as a warning example of a social pariah. In 1857 as he worked towards the publication of his theory he wrote "What a book a Devil's Chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering low & horridly cruel works of Nature!" in what Desmond and Moore argue is a reference to Taylor's nickname. However the term "the Devil's Chaplain" goes back to Geoffrey Chaucer who has his Parson say "Flatereres been the develes chapelleyns, that syngen evere placebo." As the reaction to Darwin's theory developed in March 1860 he described his close ally Thomas Huxley as his "good and kind agent for the propagation of the Gospel – i.e. the devil's gospel." Publications Syntagma of the Evidence of the Christian Religion (1828) The Diegesis: Being a Discovery of the Origin, Evidences, and Early History of Christianity, Never Yet Before or Elsewhere So Fully and Faithfully Set Forth (1829, 1860) Thirteen Astro-Theological Sermons (1848) Devil's Pulpit: Or Astro-Theological Sermons (1857) See also Rotunda radicals References Sources Adrian Desmond and James Moore, Darwin (London: Michael Joseph, the Penguin Group, 1991). Julian Browning Autographs Religion & Philosophy, note on Autograph Letter, Signed, to W.Watts, 4 November 1831. Larry M. Wright, 'Christianity Astrology and Myth',(USA, The Oak Hill Free Press, PO box: 61274, Pasadena, California, CA 911116). External links Diegesis 1784 births 1844 deaths 18th-century English people 19th-century English Anglican priests 19th-century English writers 19th-century atheists Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge British atheism activists Christ myth theory proponents Comparative mythologists Critics of Christianity English atheists English former Christians English sceptics Freethought writers People from Edmonton, London British radicals