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).
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).
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.