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TAYLOR, CHARLES WARMINGHAM, second son of John Taylor, St. Luke’s, Chelsea, Middlesex; b. 2 May 1810; adm. 30 Sep 1823 (G); Brasenose Coll. Oxford, matr. 29 May 1828. [Presumably a younger brother of Vernon Pearce Taylor (qv), who was adm. same day and who also matr. at Oxford Univ. same day].

TAYLOE, JOHN EDWARD, son of Edward Tayloe MRCS LSA, South Lodge, Clapham Common, Surrey; b. 1 Jan 1848; adm. 24 Jan 1861 (G); KS 1862; left Christmas 1864; a broker at Calcutta for some years; afterwards living in South Africa; m. 12 Sep 1874 Annetta Louisa, only dau. of Capt. Norcliffe Bendyshe Walton, 17th Foot, Barrackpur, India; d. at Casino, New South Wales, Australia 19 Jan 1919.

TAWKE, ARTHUR CHRISTIAN, son of Arthur Tawke MD, Norwich, and Hannah, dau. of Edward Smyth; b. 19 Apr 1847; adm. 27 Jan 1859 (G); Ensign, 10th Foot 25 Jan 1865; Lieut., 32nd Foot 3 Apr 1867; Capt., Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry 29 Jan 1879; Maj., 1 Apr 1886; retd. 11 Apr 1888; Lieut. -Col., 18 Oct 1902; JP Essex; m. 1870 Mary, third dau. of Right Rev. Nathaniel James Merriman, Bishop of Grahamstown, South Africa; d. at Claremont, South Africa 4 Jul 1927.

TATHAM, CYRIL THOMAS CHRISTOPHER, brother of Arthur Thomas Tatham (qv); b. 28 Mar 1859; adm. 22 Sep 1870 (G); left Apr 1875; member London Stock Exchange, firm Ricardo & Co.; m. 17 Jan 1888 Mabel Elizabeth, second dau. of Michael Hodgson Tatham, Trevor House, Highgate, Middlesex; d. 9 Jul 1900.

TARRANT, JOHN BENJAMIN, son of John Evans Tarrant, Dean Street, Soho, solicitor, and Matilda Perrin (IGI); b. 20 Dec 1807; adm. 16 Jan 1822 (G); m. 7 Aug 1830 Charlotte Assey Perrin.

Tanner, Ralph Eyre, elder son of Ralph Tanner, senior asst. master at the school, by Lucy Lawrence Le Grice, daughter of George Lewis Phipps Eyre, of Regents Park, and sister of Charles Lewis Eyre (q.v.); b. July 16, 1885; adm. Sept. 22, 1898 (G); left Dec. 1903; R.M.C. Sandhurst 1904; 2nd Lieut. the King's (Liverpool) Regt. Aug. 16, 1905; Lieut. Sept. 25, 1908; Capt. Sept. 16, 1912; went out to the western front Aug. 1914; m. June 11, 1913, Edith Vere Marjorie, youngest daughter of John Henry Brogie, of Westerham, Kent; d. in hospital at Versailles Sept. 23, 1914, of wounds received in action at the battle of the Aisne Sept. 14.

Tanner, Peter Ralph Eyre, son of Ralph Eyre Tanner (qv); b. 13 Sept. 1914; adm. Sept. 1927 (G); left Dec. 1931; a film editor and journalist; Brit. Guild of Film editors, "Golden Scissors" award 1988; m. 1st 5 Aug. 1953 Jean Rae Campbell, formerly wife of Robert Shaw, d. of Sir Hugh Eyre Campbell Beaver KBE LLD FRSA, of Luxford, Crowborough, Sussex; 2nd 24 May 1969 Daphne Mary, widow of Edgar Roy Mitchell, d. of John Stanley Towse of Cuckfield, Sussex; d. Dec. 2002.

Talfourd-Jones, Paul, son of William Henry Talfourd-Jones MRCS, of Harlesden, Middx; b. 13 Mar. 1914; adm. May. 1928 (G); left July 1932; Emmanuel Coll. Camb., matric. 1933; South Wales Borderers (TA) 1938-45 (Capt.); killed on active service (Far East) 10 Oct. 1945.

Paul Talfourd-Jones was born in London on the 13th of March 1914 the only son of Dr William Henry Talfourd-Jones MRCS and Dora (nee Perkins) Talfourd-Jones of “West Point”, Craven Park, Willesden in Middlesex, later of Castle Grounds, Devizes in Wiltshire. He was educated at Westminster School where he was up Grant’s from May 1928 to July 1932. He was a member of the 1st Cricket XI in 1932. He matriculated for Emmanuel College, Cambridge to read Medicine in 1933, but left in 1936 and did not graduate. He boxed for Cambridge University and was awarded a Blue in 1935.
In 1938 he became an assistant sales manager for Thomas Edison Ltd of Victoria House, Southampton Row, London before joining Phoenix Ltd of Kentish Town as their sales manager in 1939. He was married at Willesden, Middlesex in 1939 to Rhoda Alice (nee Mannell) of Ebford in Devon; they had two daughters, Wendy Helen, born on the 3rd of October 1941, and Sara Hilary, born on the 23rd of October 1943.
He enlisted as a Private in the 9th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment (60th Searchlight Regiment) in the Territorial Army on the 20th of April 1937 and was promoted to Corporal on the 3rd of September 1939. He attended the 166th Officer Cadet Training Unit based at Douglas from the 26th of March 1940 before being commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the South Wales Borderers on the 17th of August 1940. He was posted to the 2nd Battalion of his Regiment on the 23rd of August 1940 and served with them until the 22nd of August 1941 when he was posted to supervise at a prisoner of war camp at Cambridge until the 16th of January 1942. On the 17th of January 1942 he was posted to the 30th Battalion of his Regiment and served with them until the 16th of February 1943. He was promoted to Lieutenant in February 1942.
On the 17th of February 1943 he applied to join the Special Operations Executive as an instructor and underwent a period of instruction until April 1943. He was then posted to Beaulieu where he was an instructor on an industrial sabotage course. He was serving at No.17 Special Training School when he was posted to No. 44 Special Training School in January 1944. He was promoted to Acting Captain on the 1st of November 1943 and to temporary Captain on the 1st of February 1944, a rank he relinquished on the 24th of July 1945. On the 1st of May 1944 he was appointed as an explosives instructor and on the 9th of June 1944 he was posted to Force 136 in Ceylon where he worked as a paramilitary and as an air supply instructor. He returned to England on the 10th of June 1945 and, on the 14th of July, he was ordered to report to the Adjutant of the Westminster Garrison at noon on the 18th of July 1945. He attended a court martial on the 26th of July 1945 where he was charged on five counts of borrowing money from subordinates and of passing post dated cheques. He was cleared of four of the charges but was convicted of the fifth. Following his trial he was sent on leave to await further orders. He was later posted to the No. 21 Holding Battalion based at Newton Camp in Powys and was dismissed from the Special Operations Executive on the 6th of October 1945.
He was killed in a civilian motor accident at Newton.
He is commemorated on the war memorial at Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
He is buried at Devizes Cemetery Section X.S., Grave 34.

Tacey, Dalton William, son of Dalton Tacey, M.D., of Doncaster, Yorks, by Alice Snow, daughter of William Clarke, M.D., of Doncaster; b. Feb. 19, 1876; adm. Jan. 15, 1891 (G); left April 1895; Christ's Coll. Camb. (adm. pensr. May 25, 1895); B.A. 1899; M.A. 1904; London Hospital; M.R.C.S. and L.R.C.P. 1906; practised at Woodford, Essex; temp. Capt. R.A.M.C. June 18, 1918; served in the Channel, the Mediterranean, and Africa in Great War I; m. Aug. 4, 1906, Maude Louise, daughter of William Bell, of Walthamstow, Essex; d. March 22, 1952.