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'{{for|the apple|Taliaferro (apple)}} '''Taliaferro''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|t|ɒ|l|ɪ|v|ər}} {{respell|TOL|i-vər}}), also spelled '''Talliaferro''', '''Tagliaferro''', '''Talifero''', '''Tellifero''' or '''Taliferro''' and sometimes [[Anglicisation of names|anglicised]] to '''Tellifer''', '''Tolliver''' or '''Toliver''',<ref>{{cite news| url= http://www.genealogymagazine.com/surnames.html |authors=Toms, Gary R. & Pylant, James |title=Talliaferro is Tolliver: Surnames Sound a Challenge for Researchers|volume=13| number= 1 & 2| date= April 9, 2006 |accessdate= January 6, 2007}}</ref> is a prominent family in eastern [[Virginia]] and [[Maryland]]. The Taliaferros (originally ''Tagliaferro'', {{IPA-it|ˌtaʎʎaˈfɛrro}}, which means "ironcutter" in [[Italian language|Italian]]) are one of the early families who settled in Virginia in the 17th century. They migrated from [[London]], where an ancestor had served as a musician in the court of [[Queen Elizabeth I]]. The surname in that line is believed to trace back to Bartholomew Taliaferro, a native of Venice who settled in London and was made a denizen in 1562.<ref>{{cite journal|title=The Origin of the Family of Taliaferro |authors=Wagner, Anthony Wagner & Andrus, F. S. Andrus |journal=The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography|volume= 77|number= 1 |date=January 1969|page= 22}} Part One.</ref> [[File:Taliaferro coat of arms as drawn by Thomas Jefferson.jpg|thumb|right|200px|[[Coat of arms|Arms]] of Tagliaferro family of [[Tuscany]]. Sketch sent from [[Thomas Jefferson]] to [[George Wythe]], 1786]] The origins of the Taliaferro name were of interest to [[George Wythe]], a Virginia colonial lawyer and classical scholar, who had married Elizabeth Taliaferro, the daughter of [[Richard Taliaferro]]. Wythe urged his former student and friend [[Thomas Jefferson]] to investigate the name when Jefferson traveled to Italy. Jefferson later reported to Wythe that he had found two families of the name in [[Tuscany]], and that the family was of Italian origin.<ref>{{cite book|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=Hxs0ePxNBjoC&pg=PA915&lpg=PA915&dq=%22thomas+jefferson%22+taliaferro+italy&source=bl&ots=QVxvsZEGGM&sig=vjdctQUMHgVHE8xDugmribNPyzE&hl=en&ei=8ScTTPLYM8zsnQeOkPWUDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9&ved=0CDcQ6AEwCDgK#v=onepage&q=%22thomas%20jefferson%22%20taliaferro%20italy&f=false |title=Old Kent County, Some Account of the Planters, Vol. 1|author=Harris, Malcolm Hart Harris|publisher=Reissued by Genealogical Publishing Company|location= Baltimore, Md.|date= 2006}}</ref> Jefferson enclosed his sketch of the [[coat of arms]] of the Tagliaferro family as reported to him by a friend in [[Florence, Italy]].<ref>{{cite journal| url=http://www.americanheraldry.org/pages/index.php?n=president.jefferson |journal=The American Herald| number= 3 |date=2008| author= The American Heraldry Society| title=Taliferro Coat of Arms}}</ref> ==People== ===Surname=== It is the [[surname]] of the following persons: ====Taliaferro==== *[[Adam Taliaferro]], college football player severely injured during a game *[[Al Taliaferro]], comic-strip artist *[[Benjamin Taliaferro]], early 19th-century U.S. Representative from Georgia * Charles Taliaferro, philosopher *[[Chris Taliaferro]], Chicago alderman * Darryl M. Taliaferro, preacher, radio host *[[Edith Taliaferro]], actress *[[George Taliaferro]], NFL player *[[Hardin E. Taliaferro]], humorist and Baptist preacher *[[James Taliaferro]], early 20th-century U.S. Senator from Florida *[[John Taliaferro]], antebellum U.S. Representative from Virginia *[[Lawrence Taliaferro]], United States frontier agent *[[Lorenzo Taliaferro]], former running back for the Baltimore Ravens *[[Mabel Taliaferro]], actress *[[Ray Taliaferro]], radio host *[[Richard Taliaferro]], colonial architect in Williamsburg, Virginia *[[R. Catesby Taliaferro]], philosopher and mathematician *[[Walter R. Taliaferro]], pioneer U.S. Army aviator *[[William B. Taliaferro]], Confederate States of America general ====Toliver==== *[[Kay Toliver]], teacher *[[Charles H. Toliver]], airship builder ====Tolliver==== *[[Anthony Tolliver]], basketball player *[[Billy Joe Tolliver]], football player *[[Charles Tolliver]], musician and composer * [[WVOX#Notable Past Programming|Lisa Tolliver]], American academic-practitioner and media personality *[[Melba Tolliver]], journalist *[[Mose Tolliver]], primitive artist ===Middle name=== It is the [[middle name]] of the following persons: *[[William Close|William Taliaferro Close]], late surgeon who worked in Africa, father of actress Glenn Close *[[Robert M. T. Hunter|Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter]], U.S. Senator and Confederate Secretary of State *[[Booker T. Jones|Booker Taliaferro Jones, Jr.]], musician, composer, frontman for Booker T. and the MGs *[[Sam Rayburn|Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn]], 20th-century Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives *[[John T. Thompson|John Taliaferro Thompson]], early 20th-century U.S. Army officer who invented Thompson submachine gun *[[Booker T. Washington|Booker Taliaferro Washington]], postbellum African-American political leader, educator, orator, author, and ex-slave ===Given name=== It is the [[first name]] of the following persons: * Toliver Craig, Jr., representative in the [[Kentucky General Assembly]] * [[Toliver Craig, Sr.]] (first called Taliaferro Craig), 18th-century frontiersman and militia officer * Taliaferro Sidney Evans, Major, 11th Mississippi Regiment, CSA: died in the Cornfield Charge at Sharpsburg, 17 Sept. 1862. ==Places== * [[Camp Taliaferro]], Texas, United States, named for Walter R. Taliaferro * [[T. C. Taliaferro House]], Florida, United States * [[Taliaferro County, Georgia]], United States, named for Benjamin Taliaferro * Taliaferro Hall, [[College of William and Mary]], Virginia, United States * Taliaferro Hall, [[University of Maryland]], College Park, Maryland, United States, Named for Thomas Hardy Taliaferro. Dean/College of Engineering; Dean/College of Arts and Sciences * [[Camp Taliaferro]], San Diego, CA, Named for US Army pilot Walter R. Taliaferro ==Fictional characters== ===Surname=== ====Tagliaferro==== * Roy Tagliaferro, an alias of serial killer [[Red John]], in ''The Mentalist'' ====Taliaferro==== * Paul Taliaferro, a character in David Weber and Steve White's science-fiction novel ''[[The Shiva Option]]'' (2002) * Peachey Taliaferro Carnehan, a character in Rudyard Kipling's short story "[[The Man Who Would Be King]]" (1888) * Penelope Taliaferro Russell, secretary to John Joseph Bonforte in Robert A. Heinlein's ''[[Double Star]]'' (1956) * Roderick Taliaferro, the title character in [[George Cram Cook]]'s first novel, ''Roderick Taliaferro: A Story of Maximilian's Empire'' (1903), with illustrations by Seymour M. Stone ====Tolliver==== * Ben Tolliver, a recurring character in the ''[[Gunsmoke]]'' radio and television series and the protagonist of the episode, "Ben Tolliver's Stud" (ep. 206×11 on television and ep. 166(46) on radio) * Crane Tolliver, a character played by [[Wiley Harker]] on the ABC soap opera ''[[General Hospital]]'' * [[List of Deadwood characters#Cy Tolliver|Cy Tolliver]], a character played by [[Powers Boothe]] on HBO's ''[[Deadwood (TV series)|Deadwood]]'' TV series * [[Karin Slaughter#Grant County series|Jeffrey Tolliver]], a recurring character in crime writer [[Karin Slaughter]]'s Grant County series * June Tolliver, the "girl" in John Fox, Jr.'s romance/Western novel, [[The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (novel)|''The Trail of the Lonesome Pine'']] (1908) * Lorenzo "Guts" Tolliver, protagonist of [[Jabari Asim]]'s novel ''Only the Strong'' (May 12, 2015) * Michael Tolliver, a gardener, who is a recurring character in [[Armistead Maupin]]'s [[Armistead Maupin#Tales of the City|Tales of the City]] series * Morton Tolliver, a character in [[Christopher Kenworthy]]'s ''Dead or Alive: A Wild West Omnibus'' novel, of the Western Adventure Omnibus * Pendleton Tolliver, a fictional character in [[Ted Bell]]'s short story "The Powder Monkey", compiled in the anthology ''Thriller: Stories to Keep You Up All Night'' * Steven Tolliver, owner of a sailing ship line in [[Cecil B. DeMille]]'s film ''[[Reap the Wild Wind]]'' (1942) *[[Toby Tolliver]], a character in early 20th-century American theatrical tent shows ===Given name=== * [[Tolliver Groat]], Junior Postman, later Senior Postman and Postal Inspector in Ankh-Morpork, the fictional capital of Discworld * [[Tolliver Lang]], the stepbrother of the protagonist of ''The Harper Connelly Mysteries'' ==Other uses== *[[Taliaferro (apple)]], an apple cultivar grown by Thomas Jefferson at Monticello ==See also== *[[First Families of Virginia]] ==References== {{reflist}} <!-- It does not help to add disambig or hndis tags where the page only contains people who share a surname --> {{surname}} [[Category:Taliaferro family of Virginia| ]] [[Category:American people of Italian descent]] [[Category:American people of English descent]] [[Category:English people of Italian descent]] [[Category:First Families of Virginia]] [[Category:Surnames]]'