George Pritchard Taylor (born

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, 1854; date of death unknown) was an Indian-born grammarian and numismatist of

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family origin. He was son of

J. V. S. Taylor Rev. Joseph van Someran Taylor (Bellary, 3 July 1820 – Edinburgh, 2 June 1881), known more commonly as J. V. S. Taylor, was a Scottish Christian missionary and writer of Gujarati language. He made the earliest attempt among westerners at writin ...

, translator of the Bible into

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, grandson of

Joseph Taylor (missionary) Joseph Taylor (died 19 November 1859, Bombay), was a London Missionary Society missionary in Gujarat. Joseph Taylor may have been the son of the first LMS missionary in Gujarat, John Taylor M.D., later surgeon in Bombay. He was father of J. V. S. ...

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, and probably great-grandson of John Taylor, M.D., assistant surgeon in Bombay. George P. Taylor was ordained at

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in September 1877. Then at

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1878. For 28 years he was principal of the Stevenson Divinity College, named after

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(1832–1886), Ahmadabad. Taylor participated at the observing expedition of K D Naegamvala for the total solar eclipse of 1898 January 22. 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 (reprint, New Delhi, 1989).The Indian economic and social history review: Volume 6 Delhi School of Economics - 1969 "For the dating of the Salim Shahi coins see the article, Geo. P. Taylor on the dates of Salimi coins published in Numismatic Supplement, No"

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