Career
He received his education at Cornwall College in Jamaica and Queen"s University in Ontario. He later became an associate professor of ophthalmology at the latter institution, as well as chief of ophthalmology at Cornwall Community Hospital in Canada. Working out of a McDonnell Douglas District of Columbia-10 airplane converted into a mobile field hospital, he performed more than 1,000 charitable eye operations in more than 60 different countries, during more than 100 separate surgical missions.
Taylor also provided on-site training for local doctors in cornea, cataract and refractive procedures.
He died unexpectedly on November 19, 2005, as the result of an aortic aneurysm.