TAYLOR, MICHAEL ANGELO, only son of Sir Robert Taylor, Kt, Spring Gardens, Charing Cross, London, architect, and Elizabeth --- (IGI); bapt. St. Martin’s in the Fields 13 Jul 1757 (IGI); adm. 13 Jan 1766; Corpus Christi Coll. Oxford, matr. 21 Oct 1774, aged 17; BA 1778; MA (from St. Johnís Coll. ) 1781; adm. Inner Temple 19 Jan 1769; migr. to Lincoln’s Inn 30 Nov 1770, called to bar 12 Nov 1774; Recorder of Poole 1784; MP Poole 1784-90, Heytesbury 22 Dec 1790 - Feb 1791, Poole 25 Feb 1791-6, Albeburgh 1796 ñ Mar 1800, Durham 17 Mar 1800-2, Rye 1806-7, Ilchester 1807-12, Poole 1812-8, Durham 1818-31, Sudbury from 1832; Privy Councillor 23 Feb 1831; entered House of Commons as a supporter of Pitt, but soon became a convinced and active Whig politician; one of managers of impeachment of Warren Hastings (qv); drew attention to delays in Chancery and to the defective paving and lighting of London streets; the Metropolitan Paving Act, 1817, was long remembered as “Michael Angelo Taylor’s Act”; FSA 26 Mar 1789; m. 7 Aug 1789 Frances Anne, dau. of Rev. Sir Harry Vane, Bart., Prebendary of Durham; d. 16 Jul 1834. DNB.
Goldsmith and Silversmith active in Birmingham between 1773-1801. After his death, his brother John and brother-in-law John Perry took over the business.
TAYLOR, JOSEPH, son of Dixie Taylor, Woburn, Beds., and Catherine Westcot, Hausacre, Staffs.; bapt. 30 Sep 1649; adm.; KS 1664; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1667, matr. 12 Jul 1667, aged 18, Westminster Student 14 Mar 1668 - void 1680; BA 1671; MA 1674; ordained; Rector of Exton, Hampshire Apr - Sep 1679; Rector of Hinton Ampner, Hampshire 1679-82; Rector of Easton, Hampshire, from 19 Jun 1682; d. 1723 (will proved PCC 9 Nov 1723).
TAYLOR, JOHN, son of Thomas Taylor, York; b.; adm. (aged 12) Jan 1726/7; Min. Can. 1728; KS 1729; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1733, adm. pens. 5 Jun 1733, scholar 17 May 1734, matr. 1733.
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.