He was the second son of Joseph Tylor,
brassfounder, by his wife, Harriet Skipper, and elder brother of the anthropologist
Edward Burnett Tylor. His grandfather set up the colliery around which the village of
Tylorstown grew in the
Rhondda Valley, Wales. His parents being members of the
Society of Friends, he was educated in Quaker schools near London. Although he was interested in science, the early death of his father compelled him to devote himself to his business, which he entered in his sixteenth year. He studied in spare time, attaching himself to
St. Bartholomew's Hospital to improve his knowledge of
anatomy. He frequently visited the continent, going to Italy, Spain, and Russia, both for business and for scientific purposes with other geologists. During the latter part of his life he lived at
Carshalton. He died on 31 December 1884, on his return from a visit to America. In 1850 he married Isabella Harris of
Stoke Newington, who survived him with two sons and four daughters; their eldest child was
Joseph John Tylor, the engineer and Egyptologist. Tylor was also a friend of acclaimed Victorian critic,
John Ruskin, who valued Tylor's geological skills and enjoyed his company. In 1871 Ruskin enrolled the Tylor family in his project to 'cleanse' a spring and pool of the River Wandel near the Tylors' house, and Isabella Tylor became very active in this project in the coming years. Juliet Tylor became a Companion of Ruskin's Guild of St George. ==Works==