TAYLOR, JOHN; b. 1 Jun 1818; adm. 3 Feb 1829.
TAYLOR, JAMES NATHANIEL; b.; adm. 15 Jun 1776. [Presumably James Nathaniel Taylor, son of James Taylor, and Elizabeth ---, bapt. Much Hadham, Herts., 6 Jun 1760 (IGI)] [note will James Nathaniel Taylor, St. Marylebone, Middlesex, proved PCC 18 May 1838]
Taylor, Ian Birdwood van Someren, son of Richard van Someren Taylor, sales man. Schweppes Ltd, and Olivia Winn Bruce, d. of John Bruce Murray LLD DL, of Glasgow; b. 12 Jan. 1920; adm. Sept. 1933 (R); left Apr. 1936; Roy. Tank Regt 1940-1 (Lieut.); killed in action at Sidi Rezegh, Libya, 23 Nov. 1941.
Ian Birdwood van Someren Taylor was born on the 12th of January 1920 the only son of Birdwood van Someren Taylor, a sales manager for Schweppes Ltd, and Olivia Winn Bruce (nee Murray) Taylor of 87, Cromwell Road, South Kensington in London. He was educated at Westminster School where he was up Rigaud’s from September 1933 to April 1936.
He enlisted as a Trooper in the Westminster Dragoons, Royal Armoured Corps and attended the 102nd Officer Cadet Training Unit at Sandhurst before being commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Armoured Corps on the 4th of May 1940. He was posted to the 8th Royal Tank Regiment.
At 8.30pm on the night of the 22nd of November 1941, the 8th Royal Tank Regiment received orders to advance to relieve the 7th Armoured Brigade support group at Sidi Rezegh. They moved off towards the west at 3.30am on the 23rd of November and opened into desert formation at 5.30am. They discovered a short time later that they were advancing in the wrong direction and found themselves in the midst of the Afrika Corps Headquarters where they came under fire from enemy armoured cars and infantry. Two Troops of tanks were ordered forward and after a short engagement they had knocked out one enemy armoured car and eight staff cars as well as capturing several German and Italian prisoners.
The advance continued on the correct line, with C Squadron protecting the left flank. At 11.30am, C Squadron received orders to go to the aid of an infantry Battalion which had been held up by enemy fire and they set off half an hour later. They attacked in two waves and by 12.30pm the infantry had taken their objective. The tanks were due to retire to the rallying point ten minutes later but were still under fire by that time and had difficulty disengaging. By 3.30pm only four of the tanks had reached the rallying point with others returning during the afternoon, some of which were badly damaged and with wounded on board.
During the night, Ian Taylor’s crew walked back into the rallying point to report that their tank had been hit in the right idler wheel during the fighting and had stopped. They continued to fire on the enemy until their guns jammed, by which time they had been hit several more times and Ian Taylor had ordered them to abandon the tank. The crew took cover in a nearby trench for a long period of time before Ian Taylor left to make contact with the infantry and was not seen again.
Casualties suffered by the 8th Royal Tank Regiment during this action were one man killed with five wounded and twenty men missing, of which four were officers.
He is buried at Knightsbridge Cemetery Plot 2, Row H, Grave 18.
TAYLOR, HERBERT, son of John Taylor, Bifrons, Patrixbourne, Kent, and Olivia, dau. of Sir Nicholas Tempest, Bart. ; bapt. Patrixbourne, Kent 15 May 1698; at school under Freind (J. E. B. Mayor & R. F. Scott, Admissions to St. Johnís Coll. Cambridge, ii, 216); St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 7 Jul 1714, aged 16, matr. 1714; BA 1717/8; MA 1721; Fellow, St. John’s Coll. 1720-7; ordained deacon (London) 24 Dec 1721, priest (Lincoln) 10 Mar 1722/3; Curate, St. Margaret’s, Canterbury, Kent 1726; Rector of St. Alphege and St. Mary Northgate, Canterbury, Kent 1 Aug 1726-53; Six Preacher, Canterbury Cathedral, from 7 Nov 1727; Rector of Hunton, Kent, from 8 Feb 1748; Rector of Patrixbourne, Kent, from 3 Feb 1753; inherited Bifrons estate from elder brother 1731; m. 3 Nov 1726 Mary, dau. of Rev. Edward Wake DD, Prebendary of Canterbury; d. 29 Sep 1763.
Taylor, Herbert David Borrett, brother of Ernest Gordon Borrett Taylor (qv); b. 28 June 1914; adm. Jan. 1928 (A); left July 1931; Northampton Engineering Coll. 1931-6; ARAeS 1939, TEng (CEI); D. Napier & Son 1936-63; devel. engineer de Havilland Engine Co. 1963-7, CAV Ltd 1967-77; retd 1977; d. Sept. 2001.
TAYLOR, GEORGE; b.; adm. 13 Jan 1779.
TAYLOR, GEORGE, eldest son of John Taylor, Nevis, West Indies, and Eleanor ---; b. 5 Apr 1772; adm. 22 Jan 1783; KS (aged 13) 1785; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1789, matr. 12 Jun 1789, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1789 - void 25 Jun 1801; BA 1793; MA 1796; adm. Middle Temple 14 May 1794.
Taylor, George Alec, son of George Beatson Taylor, of Esher, Surrey; b. Nov. 6, 1878; adm. May 8, 1891 (R); left May 1894.