Gordon Rattray Taylor

A British author and broadcaster who served as a member of the Society for Psychical Research, London (1976-81). He was born in Eastbourne on January 11, 1911, and educated at Radley College, Trinity College, and Cambridge University. He worked as a journalist beginning in 1933 and in 1958 joined the British Broadcasting Company where he wrote and devised science television programs. In 1966 he became a full-time author. He had authored a number of books over his lifetime. Taylor died December, 7, 1981.

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Pleasants, Helene, ed. Biographical Dictionary of Parapsychology. New York: Helix Press, 1964.