Background
Born in Saint 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 and his grandfather was George Boole).
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Julian Taylor
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Professor Julian Taylor, C.B.E., Master of Surgery, Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons., Honorary.F.R.A.C.S. was a specialist in neurological surgery, Senior Surgeon at University College Hospital, a former Vice-President of the Royal College of Surgeons and later Professor of Surgery at the University of Khartoum.
Career
Educated at University College School and University College Hospital, he qualified in 1911, an immediate disciple of Wilfred Trotter, one of the pioneers in neurosurgery, graduated Bachelor of Medicine,Bachelor of Surgery, with honours in medicine in the following year and took the Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. in 1914. He tells the heart-rending story, without comment, in Chapter 25 of the volume on "Surgery" in the History of the Second World War, United Kingdom Medical Services. When he came back to England from the prison camp his malnutrition was such that he broke both his arms on arrival.
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At a time when his contemporaries in other military areas were becoming major generals and achieving knighthoods, Taylor was a prisoner of war in Changi Prison camp, struggling with unspeakable conditions and lack of antiseptics and anaesthetics, with 2,500 wounded soldiers, 500 compound fractures, septicaemia, dysentery, avitaminosis, making artificial limbs out of aluminium fan blades and Thomas knee-splints.
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United Kingdom