John Taylor

John Taylor, Johnny Taylor or similar may refer to:

Academic figures

  • John Taylor (classical scholar) (1704–1766), English classical scholar
  • John Taylor (English publisher) (1781–1864), British publisher and Egypt scholar
  • John Taylor (Oxford), Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University, 1486–1487
  • John B. Taylor (born 1946), American economist, known as the creator of the 'Taylor Rule'
  • John Bryan Taylor, British physicist known for the Taylor state and work in plasma physics
  • John Edward Taylor (fl. 1847), English translator of Italian works
  • John Ellor Taylor (1837–1895), popular science writer
  • John Taylor (Pitt Principal), President of University of Pittsburgh
  • John G. Taylor (1931–2012), British physicist, neural-network researcher and author
  • John R. Taylor, American physics professor, author of An Introduction to Error Analysis
  • John Taylor (UK e-Science architect), architect of the UK e-Science programme
  • John Taylor, American writer, translator, and literary critic
  • The arts

    Acting

  • John Taylor (actor) in The Ringer (2005 film) and the voice of Bunji on The Chica Show
  • John Taylor (manufacturer)

    John I Taylor (1711–1775) of Bordesley Hall near Birmingham (then a small town in Warwickshire), was an English manufacturer and banker. He served as High Sheriff of Warwickshire in 1756–7.

    Origins

    John I Taylor was the eldest son and heir of Jonathan Taylor (d.1733) of Bordesley by his wife Rebecca Kettle.

    Career

    Taylor became a cabinet maker in Birmingham. There he set up a factory in what is now Union Street to manufacturer "Brummagem toys", such as buttons, buckles, snuff boxes and jewellery boxes. He eventually employed 500 people and became one of Birmingham's leading industrialists. The output of buttons from his works was estimated at £800 per week. Taylor invested the profits of his business in local land and property, buying Sheldon Hall in 1752 and Moseley Hall and the manor of Yardley in 1768, and eventually owned about 2,000 acres. In 1765, in partnership with his neighbour, the Quaker iron merchant Sampson Lloyd II (1699-1779) (who in 1742 purchased as his country residence the estate of "Farm" within the manor of Bordesley), Taylor founded Taylor and Lloyd's Bank in Dale End, Birmingham, which eventually grew into Lloyds Banking Group, one of the largest banks in the United Kingdom.

    John Taylor (Geordie songwriter)

    John Taylor (18401891) was a 19th-century Dunston born songwriter and poet (whose material won many prizes) and an accomplished artist and engraver.

    Early life

    John Taylor was born in 1840 in Dunston, Gateshead, (which at the time was in County Durham but is now in Tyne and Wear).

    John Taylor began adult life as a clerk at the Newcastle Central Station After several years he became impatient at not gaining, in his mind, sufficient promotion, and left to “better himself” as a traveller for a brewery.

    Like many other short cuts this, in time, he found had its drawbacks, and possibly the slower progress of the railway might in the end have been better.

    He was a prolific writer of songs and many won prizes in the competitions run by both John W Chater and Ward's Almanacs (Ward's Directory of Newcastle upon Tyne and the Adjacent Villages; Together with an Almanac, a Town and County Guide and a Commercial Advertiser).

    It was to him Joe Wilson allegedly said whilst talking in the Adelaide Hotel, "Jack, ye can write a sang aboot as weel as me, but yor sangs divn't sing, an' mine dis."

    Podcasts:

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    Just Another High

    by: John Taylor

    Maybe your heart is aching
    I wouldn't know, now would I?
    Maybe your spirit's breaking up
    I shouldn't care, now should I?
    Maybe you're thinking of me
    Well, I wouldn't know, now would I?
    If only you knew how I feel oh,
    I wish I could die, don't I?
    Couldn't believe in my eyes
    You drifted into my life
    But marriages made in Heaven
    Can they survive in this life?
    Surely it came as no surprise
    Love was too hot to handle
    Well I really blew my cool
    And you just blew out the candle
    I'm just another crazy guy
    Playing at love was another high
    Just another high
    Lately it seems so empty here
    But I suppose I'm all right
    Maybe tomorrow's not so clear
    Still I remember that night
    Singing to you like this is
    My only way to reach you
    And though I'm too proud to say it
    Oh how I long to see you
    Shattered my dreams by your good-bye
    Scattered my hopes they fill the sky
    Desolate am I
    I'm just another crazy guy
    Playing at love was another high
    Just another high
    Just another high
    Just another high
    Just another high
    Just another high
    Do do do do
    Do do do do
    Do do do do
    Do do do do
    Just another high
    Maybe I got stuck on you
    Just another high




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