George Taylor

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George Taylor (Connecticut politician)

George Taylor (August 24, 1802-January 14, 1881) was an American physician and politician.

Taylor was born in New Milford, Conn., August 24, 1802, the son of Col. William Taylor and Abigail (Starr) Taylor. His great grandfather, Rev. Daniel Boardman, and his grandfather, Rev. Nathaniel Taylor, were the first and second pastors of New Milford.

Taylor graduated from Yale Medical School in 1824. Immediately on graduation he began practice in his native town, where he continued to reside until his death, after a long illness, January 14, 1881, in his 79th year.

He became convinced of the truth of homoeopathy in 1837, and was the first practitioner of that school in Connecticut.

He was elected to the Connecticut State Senate in 1835 and 1836, and represented New Milford in the Connecticut House of Representatives in 1833, 1834, 1850, 1863, 1871, 1872, and 1874, being in the last instance the senior member of the House, save one, in length of service. He filled various other local offices, being Judge of Probate from 1836 to 1838, from 1842 to 1844, and from 1855 to 1857, and Town Treasurer for 14 years. In 1844 he was the Democratic candidate for US Congress in his district; in 1864, a delegate to the Democratic National Convention; and in 1876, on the Democratic ticket for Presidential Elector.

George Taylor (artist)

George Taylor (1914–1996) was an English artist. He has prominence for his functional pub signs in a distinct hybrid modern-meets-traditional style.

Taylor trained as a signwriter in Birmingham. In the 1930s he worked for a signwriting company in his native town Bromsgrove, where his commissions included designing film posters for the Rank Organisation.

From 1941 to 1945, during World War II, he was sent to Cairo to work as a camouflage artist (painter).

After the war, until his retirement in 1976, he was director of a silk-screen printing company in Surrey. He and his wife Sylvia then moved to Yorkshire and he painted over 100 pub signs for these businesses across that region. In 1984 his family moved to Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk in which area he continued work for his most frequent client, the Greene King Brewery who are based there — he created more than 250 signs for Greene King pubs. He was main sign artist for a period for the Wem Brewing Company based in the market town of Wem in Shropshire. He died in January 1996.