Robert H. Taylor [SEP] date of death
Robert H. Taylor
Robert H. Taylor (died, aged 76, on 5 May 1985) was a bibliophile who was president of the Grolier Club, the Keats-Shelley Association of America and the Bibliographical Society of America. He donated his collection of 7,000 books, manuscripts and drawings to Princeton University in 1971. He had graduated from Princeton in 1930.
Grandson of businessman and politician John Emory Andrus, Taylor served as director of the Surdna Foundation, a philanthropy established by Andrus in 1917.
Collecting.
Taylor
has been claimed as 10 Aug 1874, however the date of 16 Sep 1866 is evidenced by his official birth record. He was educated to elementary level at Bourke, where his family moved after his father's alleged death when Stuart-Robertson was 4 years old. Despite the rumour that Robert senior had died during the 1870s in Queensland, Robert senior died on 3 July 1899 at George Street Asylum, Parramatta, New South Wales.
Stuart-Robertson undertook a number of unsuccessful retail businesses in Bourke and Cobar. During