Background
Born in Moncton, New Brunswick, the son of Ezekiel Moore Taylor and Rosalind Beatty, Williams-Taylor joined the Bank of Montreal in 1878.
Born in Moncton, New Brunswick, the son of Ezekiel Moore Taylor and Rosalind Beatty, Williams-Taylor joined the Bank of Montreal in 1878.
He was general manager of the Bank of Montreal. He was appointed Assistant Inspector, Head Office in 1897. Joint Manager, Chicago in 1903.
Manager in London, England in 1906.
And General Manager in 1913. Their daughter Brenda Frazier was the famous American debutante popular during the Depression era.
Just before her daughter"s wedding in Montreal in December 1917, Lady Williams-Taylor was painted by the Swiss-born American society artist Adolfo Muller-Ury at Nassau in the Bahamas, after which he attended the wedding ceremony. Frederick Williams-Taylor was knighted in 1913, and combined his middle name and birth surname into a new hyphenated surname.
He received an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from the University of New Brunswick in 1915.