Basic Biographical Details Name: | George Swan Taylor | Designation: | | Born: | 18 November 1895 | Died: | 2 July 1973 | Bio Notes: | George Swan Taylor was born on 18 November 1895, the son of George Swan Taylor, foreman linoleum blockcutter, and his wife Jemima Welsh Kidd. He commenced his apprenticeship in Edinburgh in August 1910. He attended evening classes during that period followed by day classes at Heriot-Watt College and Edinburgh College of Art under George Washington Browne in 1914 and 1915, subsequently serving for four years with the Royal Engineers before resuming classes for a further year. In 1919 he gained a College of Art bursary which enabled him to spend time making measured drawings of the Border abbeys, and in the same year he was engaged as an assistant to 'Edinburgh Architects having wide practice', his nomination papers naming no specific firms. The nomination papers similarly omit any indication of his activities over the following decade, but state that he passed the qualifying exam in Edinburgh in December 1929 and that he was appointed chief architectural assistant to the Edinburgh Education Authority soon afterwards. He was admitted ARIBA in spring 1930, his proposers being Thomas Forbes Maclennan, George Donaldson Macniven, and George Washington Browne. By 1939-40 he had taken a post in the City Architect's Department in Edinburgh. He was still working there in 1950.
Taylor died on 2 July 1973 at the Western General Hospital in Edinburgh. He was survived by his wife Mary Hay Jamieson and his son. | Private and Business AddressesThe following private or business addresses are associated with this : | | Address | Type | Date from | Date to | Notes | | 11, Craigleith Drive, Edinburgh, Scotland | Private | | 1973 | | | 35, Comely Bank Road, Edinburgh, Scotland | Private | 1930 * | | |
* earliest date known from documented sources.
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ReferencesBibliographic ReferencesThe following books contain references to this : | | Author(s) | Date | Title | Part | Publisher | Notes | | RIBA | 1939 | The RIBA Kalendar 1939-1940 | | London: Royal Institute of British Architects | | | RIBA | 1950 | The RIBA Kalendar 1950-1951 | | London: Royal Institute of British Architects | |
Archive ReferencesThe following archives hold material relating to this : | | Source | Archive Name | Source Catalogue No. | Notes | | H M Register House | Death Register | | | | RIBA Archive, Victoria & Albert Museum | RIBA Nomination Papers | | A no4487 (combined box 17) |
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