Life

Born on 26 January 1824, he was the second son of Joseph Tylor, brassfounder, by his wife, Harriet Skipper, and elder brother of Edward Burnett Tylor

Edward Burnett Tylor

Sir Edward Burnett Tylor , was an English anthropologist.Tylor is representative of cultural evolutionism. In his works Primitive Culture and Anthropology, he defined the context of the scientific study of anthropology, based on the evolutionary theories of Charles Lyell...

. His grandfather set up the colliery around which the village of Tylorstown

Tylorstown

Tylorstown is a village located in the Rhondda valley, in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. It was founded by Alfred Tylor who set up an early coal mining operation in the location in the mid-19th century....

 grew in the Rhondda Valley, Wales.

His parents being members of the Society of Friends, he was educated in Qualer 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

Carshalton

Carshalton is a suburban area of the London Borough of Sutton, England. It is located 10 miles south-southwest of Charing Cross, situated in the valley of the River Wandle, one of the sources of which is Carshalton Ponds in the centre of the village. The combined population of the five wards...

. He died on 31 December 1884, on his return from a visit to America. In 1850 he married Isabella Harris of Stoke Newington

Stoke Newington

Stoke Newington is a district in the London Borough of Hackney. It is north-east of Charing Cross.-Boundaries:In modern terms, Stoke Newington can be roughly defined by the N16 postcode area . Its southern boundary with Dalston is quite ill-defined too...

, who survived him with two sons and four daughters.

Works

Tylor paid attention to recent geological history, the subject of the majority of his thirteen papers. He maintained that the late glacial period was followed by one of exceptional rainfall, for which he proposed the name of pluvial. His major books were:

• 'On Changes of Sea Level,' London, 1853.
• 'Education and Manufactures,' London, 1863, (reprinted from a report connected with the exhibition of 1851, where he was a juror).
• 'Colouration in Animals and Plants,' ed. S. B. J. Skertchly, London, 1886.