Colonial Despatches

The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871

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, 300.
3. Ibid.
4. Fox, Nacnamara's Irish Colony, (McFarland & Company, 1942), 77.

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Taggart, William to Lytton, Sir Edward George Earle Bulwer 19 August 1858, CO 6:26, no. 8619, 300.

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