Professor Julian Taylor,
C.B.E.
The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations,
and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...
, M.S., F.R.C.S., Hon.F.R.A.C.S. (26 January 1889 – 15 April 1961) was a specialist in neurological surgery, Senior Surgeon at University College Hospital, a former vice-president of the
Royal College of Surgeons
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and later Professor of Surgery at the
University of Khartoum
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.
Born in St. John's Wood, London, his father was the artist
Edward Ingram Taylor and his mother,
Margaret Boole, came from a family of mathematicians (his aunt was
Alicia Boole Stott
Alicia Boole Stott (8 June 1860 – 17 December 1940) was an Irish mathematician. Despite never holding an academic position, she made a number of valuable contributions to the field, receiving an honorary doctorate from the University of Groni ...
and his grandfather was
George Boole
George Boole (; 2 November 1815 – 8 December 1864) was a largely self-taught English mathematician, philosopher, and logician, most of whose short career was spent as the first professor of mathematics at Queen's College, Cork in Ire ...
). His brother was the physicist Sir
Geoffrey Ingram Taylor
Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor OM FRS FRSE (7 March 1886 – 27 June 1975) was a British physicist and mathematician, and a major figure in fluid dynamics and wave theory. His biographer and one-time student, George Batchelor, described him as " ...
OM. Educated at
University College School
("Slowly but surely")
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and
University College Hospital
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, he qualified in 1911, an immediate disciple of
Wilfred Trotter
Wilfred Batten Lewis Trotter, FRS (3 November 1872 – 25 November 1939) was an English surgeon, a pioneer in neurosurgery. He was also known for his studies on social psychology, most notably for his concept of the herd instinct, which he fi ...
, one of the pioneers in neurosurgery, graduated M.B., B.S., with honours in medicine in the following year and took the F.R.C.S. in 1914.
References
British Medical Journal obituarySudan Association of Surgeons
External links
Memorial address by Mr. A. J. Gardham, F.R.C.S
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English surgeons
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
1889 births
1961 deaths
People educated at University College School
Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons of England
Academic staff of the University of Khartoum
20th-century surgeons