his life showed "an instance of how far impudence may carry ignorance." The time and place of Taylor's death are uncertain. The musicologist Charles Burney claimed that he died on the morning of Friday 16 November 1770 in Rome, also claiming to have "dined with him at my table d'hote a few days before his death". He was also said to have died in Paris. In June and July 1772, several newspapers in Germany and England reported that he had recently died at a convent in Prague, completely blind, after having suffered from amaurosis; this version was also supported by Taylor's grandson John Taylor. See also William Read Joshua Ward References Further reading Year of birth uncertain 1770s deaths British ophthalmologists British surgeons People from Norwich Health fraud Pseudoscience