Family
His father was Captain du Plat Taylor, Paymaster of Pensioners of the King's German Legion (KGL).
He married Emily Emma Charlotte, the only daughter of the late William Corbet, High Sheriff of Leicestershire and the Honourable Mrs Emily Arabella Jane St. John Smith daughter of Henry St John, 4th Viscount Bolingbroke, 5th Viscount St John, of Bitteswell Hall, near Lutterworth, Leicestershire at the parish church of St Leonard’s-on-Sea, East Sussex on 2 February 1863.
The maritime archaeologist, Joan du Plat Taylor (1906–1983), is his granddaughter although he died two years before she was born.
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