Taggart, William
William Taggart ran the Pacific Steam Navigation Company from Austin Friars Street, London.1 He later worked as a secretary for the Pacific Steam Navigation Company in Liverpool from 1850 to 1859.2 In 1858, Taggart offered the Colonial Office a steamship to transport British troops from Panama to Victoria. His offer was accepted but never executed.3
Taggart may have been related to John Taggart of Guiana.4
  • 1. John Fox, Nacnamara’s Irish Colony and the United States Taking of California in 1846, (McFarland & Company, 1942), 61-82.
  • 2. Ibid.; British Government, Report from the select Committee on Packet and Telegraphic Contracts; together with Proceedings of the Committee, Minutes of Evidence, Appendix, and Index, (House of Commons, August 10, 1859), 359; Taggart to Lytton, 19 August 1858, 8619 NA, CO 6/26, p. 300.
  • 3. Ibid.
  • 4. Fox, Nacnamara’s Irish Colony, (McFarland & Company, 1942), 77.
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The Colonial Despatches Team. Taggart, William. The Colonial Despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871, Edition 2.0, ed. The Colonial Despatches Team. Victoria, B.C.: University of Victoria. https://bcgenesis.uvic.ca/taggart_w.html.

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