Glenn Chandler (including its series "Crown Court") before creating and writing his own series "Taggart" for STV Productions (ITV Network). Chandler created "Taggart" for STV's Controller of Drama, Robert Love, who wanted to set a police series in Glasgow. Chandler was inspired by true crime and real life, and even lifted the names of characters for the series from gravestones in Maryhill Cemetery in Glasgow. The series continued even after the death of the actor Mark McManus, who played the lead role of Jim Taggart, and became the longest-running police drama on British television. Chandler has continued to write for his first
Cynthia Taggart Cynthia Taggart Cynthia Taggart (1801 - 1849) was a 19th-century American poet. A chronic invalid, she was the victim of unceasing pain, from her early infancy, during the period of her adolescence, and through the duration of her life. Physical anguish was a repetitive theme in Taggart's poems. Cynthia Taggart was born in 1801, or ca. 1804, in a cottage about from Newport, Rhode Island. She was the daughter of a soldier, whose property was destroyed during the American Revolution, and who died in old age and poverty at the family home. Though she had few opportunities of learning, she