James Haward Taylor FRS (24 February 1909;–25 January 1968) was a British geologist who served as president of the

Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland began in 1876. Its main purpose is to disseminate scientific knowledge of the Mineral Sciences (mineralogy) as it may be applied to the fields of crystallography, geochemistry, petrology, e ...

from 1963 to 1965. He was educated at Clifton College,

King's College London King's College London (informally King's or KCL) is a public research university located in London, England. King's was established by royal charter in 1829 under the patronage of King George IV and the Duke of Wellington. In 1836, King's ...

(BSc with 1st Class Hons, AKC, Jelf Medal (Natural Science)), Harvard University (AM, 1934), and the University of London (PhD, 1936).‘TAYLOR, Prof. James Haward’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 He was Professor of Geology at

. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1960.

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