Background
The son of a cotton mill owner from Bolton, Lancashire, Taylor was educated at Gresham"s School, Holt.
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Ken Taylor
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Under the name Ken Taylor, he wrote scripts for television drama in a career spanning more than four decades. In the same year, Taylor was named Writer of the Year by the Guild of Television Writers and Directors (later British Academy of Film and Television Arts) for his trilogy of television plays The Seekers. The Jewel in the Crown, adapted from Paul Scott"s Raj Quartet novels as a fifteen-hour mini-series, earned Ken Taylor an Emmy nomination in 1984 along with the award as Writer of the Year from the Royal Television Society, while his adaptation of Mary Wesley"s The Camomile Lawn (1992) received a British Academy of Film and Television Arts nomination.
His adaptation credits also include Jane Austen"s Mansfield Park, The Melancholy Hussar by Thomas Hardy, The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd by Doctorate. H. Lawrence, The Birds Fall Down by Rebecca West and The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark, and The Devil"s Crown.
One son, adopted, is the Liberal Democrat politician Matthew Taylor.
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April 17, 2011 (aged 88) -
Nationality
English
Awards
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the Best Original Teleplay Award Writers' Guild of Great Britain Best Original Teleplay Award, 1964 Guild of Television Writers and Directors' Writer of the Year Award, 1964 Royal Television Society Writers' Award, 1984 Fellow of the Royal Society of Antiquaries, 2008the Best Original Teleplay Award Writers' Guild of Great Britain Best Original Teleplay Award, 1964 Guild of Television Writers and Directors' Writer of the Year Award, 1964 Royal Television Society Writers' Award, 1984 Fellow of the Royal Society of Antiquaries, 2008