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| | LRB John Barrell : The Reptile Oculist |
 | | John Taylor, the journalist, newspaper editor and poet, was born in 1757. |
| | His grandfather, the legendary 'Chevalier' Taylor, had been oculist to George II, and afterwards, so his grandson assures us, to 'every crowned head in Europe'. |
| | John Barrell is a member of the Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies at the University of York and the author of Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason and Fantasies of Regicide 1793-96. |
| www.lrb.co.uk /v26/n07/print/barr01_.html (261 words) |
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