Mark McManus Mark McManus Mark McManus (21 February 1935 – 6 June 1994) was a Scottish actor, who also worked in England and Australia. McManus was best known for playing tough Glaswegian Detective Chief Inspector Jim Taggart in the long-running STV television series "Taggart" for eleven years from (1983-1994) until his death, McManus was born in Hamilton, Lanarkshire, Scotland, on 21 February 1935 and moved to Hillingdon, Uxbridge, in London when he was three years old, until he moved again at the age of sixteen to Australia, where he performed in amateur theatre groups that led him to becoming a professional actor.
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