George Taylor

English architect. Articled to James T. Parkinson (fl. c.1800–c.1840) in 1804, he was involved in the building of Montague and Bryanston Squares and other parts of the Portman Estate in London. In 1816–19 he and Edward Cresy (1792–1858) travelled in England, France, Italy, Greece, Malta, and Sicily, after which they published The Architectural Antiquities of Rome… (1821–2 and 1874) and The Architecture of the Middle Ages in Italy… (1829), an early work extolling Italian medieval architecture. In 1824 Taylor was appointed Civil Architect to the Navy, and carried out robust and virile works at the dockyards of Chatham, Sheerness, and Woolwich. He was responsible for the fine Clarence Victualling Yard, Gosport, Hants. (1828–32). In the 1840s he laid out a large part of the Bishop of London's Estate in Paddington (e.g. Chester Place and parts of Hyde Park and Gloucester Squares). He published Stones of Etruria and Marbles of Ancient Rome (1859). His most extraordinary work is the huge Gothic Revival tower of Hadlow Castle, Kent (c.1840), a folly to almost rival Wyatt's Fonthill in extravagance, and he pioneered the modern use of concrete as a building material in the Proprietary School, Lee, Kent (1836), modelled on the Propylaea in Athens.

Bibliography

• Colvin (1995)
• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004)
• W.Papworth (1892)

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Taylor, George, pseudonym of A. Hausrath.

George Taylor may refer to:

• George Taylor (Alamo defender) (c. 1816–1836), soldier in Texas army, died in the Battle of the Alamo
• George Taylor (gardener) (1803-1891), introduced celery to the United States.
• George Taylor (baseball) (1853–1911), American Brooklyn Dodgers player
• George Taylor (delegate) (c. 1716–1781), signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence
• George Taylor (Leeds South) (born 1840), Canadian House of Commons member
• George Taylor (New York Representative) (1820-1894), American Congressman from New York
• George Taylor (soldier) (1905–1994), Brigadier George Taylor who served in World War II, the Korean War, and in the Mau Mau campaign
• George A. Taylor (1899–1969), American army officer at D-Day invasion, Battle of Normandy
• George E. Taylor (1905-2000) China scholar, University of Washington Professor
• George Augustine Taylor (1872-1928), Australian artist and journalist
• George Ledwell Taylor (1788–1873), English architect
• George P. Taylor (fl. 1975-2007), American Air Force Surgeon General
• George Sylvester Taylor (1822-1910), American Massachusetts state senator
• George W. Taylor (1849-1932), American Congressman from Alabama
• George W. Taylor (general), American Civil War general
• George W. Taylor (professor) (1901-1972), American academic and labor mediator
• George William Taylor (born 1937), Canadian Solicitor General
• Taylor (Planet of the Apes), Colonel George Taylor, fictional hero of the film Planet of the Apes
• George Caldwell Taylor (1885-1952), U.S. federal judge

See also

• Taylor
• List of people with surname Taylor

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