John Taylor (manufacturer)

For the paper manufacturer, see John Taylor (paper manufacturer).
John Taylor
Portrait by unknown artist
Born1711 (1711)
Died1775(1775-00-00) (aged 63–64)
NationalityEnglish
Occupation(s)Manufacturer, banker, High Sheriff of Warwickshire
Arms of Taylor: Argent guttée-de-poix, on a chief indented sable a pale between two escallops of the first charged with an escallop of the second[1]

John Taylor (1711–1775)[2] 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 1756–57.

  1. ^ Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, 15th Edition, ed. Pirie-Gordon, H., London, 1937, p.2212
  2. ^ Date of birth 1711 per Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, 15th Edition, ed. Pirie-Gordon, H., London, 1937, pp.2211-2, Pedigree of Taylor of Strensham