George Pritchard Taylor

Male, Deceased Person

1854 –

50

Who is George Pritchard Taylor?

George Pritchard Taylor was an Indian-born grammarian and numismatist of Northern-Irish family origin.

He was son of J. V. S. Taylor, translator of the Bible into Gujarati, grandson of Joseph Taylor of Belgaum, and probably great-grandson of John Taylor, M.D., assistant surgeon in Bombay.

George P. Taylor was ordained at Belfast in September 1877. Then at Surat 1878. For 28 years he was principal of the Stevenson Divinity College, named after William Fleming Stevenson, Ahmadabad.

He revised and expanded the grammar of his father J. V. S. Taylor. His main numismatic work was The Coins of Tipu Sultan, Calcutta, 1914.

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1854
Khambhat
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on July 23, 2013

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