John Taylor, Baron Ingrow

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John Aked Taylor, Baron Ingrow (born August 15, 1917 in Keighley ( West Yorkshire ), † February 7, 2002 ) was a British soldier, brewer and Conservative Party politician .

Life

John Taylor was a son of Percy and Gladys Taylor and attended Shrewsbury School . During the Second World War he served first in the Duke of Wellington's Regiment of the British Army and then in the Royal Corps of Signals , where he participated in the decoding work in Norway , the Middle East, North Africa, Italy , northwestern Europe and Burma . In 1951 he was awarded a military medal, the Territorial Decoration (TD), for his services .

For 40 years, John Taylor served as chairman and general manager of the Keighley-based family brewery Timothy Taylor & Co , founded in 1858 by his grandfather Timothy Taylor.

John Taylor had served on Keighley City Council for 21 years since 1946 and was mayor of that city in 1956. For nearly two decades, from 1964 to 1983, he was also a member of the governing body of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations , an association of the British Conservative Party; he was its chairman from 1971 to 1976.

In 1960 John Taylor was named Officer of the Order of the British Empire , an Order of Merit of the United Kingdom, knighted to the nobility in 1972 , and on January 31, 1983 with the title Baron Ingrow, of Keighley in the County of West Yorkshire under the Life Peers added. From 1985 to 1992 he was Lord Lieutenant in the position of the Queen's personal representative in West Yorkshire, having previously held the post of Deputy Lieutenant . He died in 2002 at the age of 84.

In 1949, John Taylor married Barbara Mary Stirk. The marriage, from which the two daughters Anne Elizabeth and Diana Mary, born in 1951 and 1953 respectively, emerged, had lasted until the death of his wife in 1998.

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Remarks

  1. ^ The Guardian , Obituary
  2. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 41909, HMSO, London, January 1, 1960, p. 14 ( PDF , English).
  3. ↑ London Gazette . No. 45849, HMSO, London, December 12, 1972, p. 14743 ( PDF , English).
  4. ↑ London Gazette . No. 49254, HMSO, London, February 3, 1983, p. 1613 ( PDF , English).
  5. ^ The Daily Telegraph , Obituary
personal data
SURNAME Taylor, John, Baron Ingrow
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Taylor, John Aked, Baron Ingrow
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Keighley , West Yorkshire
DATE OF DEATH February 7, 2002