Harold Taylor (architectural historian)

Harold McCarter Taylor, CBE, TD (13 May 1907 – 23 October 1995) was a New Zealand-born British mathematician, theoretical physicist and academic administrator, but is best known[1] as a historian of architecture and the author, with his first wife Joan Taylor, née Sills, of the three volumes of Anglo-Saxon Architecture, published between 1965 and 1978.

  1. ^ "New Zealander Harold Taylor is best known internationally as one of the authors of the monumental three volume Anglo-Saxon Architecture (volumes 1 and 2 were co-written with Joan Taylor; volume 3 is his own)." From the abstract of "Atoms and Architecture: Harold Taylor, 1907-1995", paper by Greg Waite, Otago, for the conference "Intellectual Diasporas: Australasians and the Study of the Early European Past", University of Auckland, 1 February 2005.[1] Archived 16 October 2008 at the Wayback Machine