Geoffrey Thomas Taylour, 4th Marquess of Headfort Doctor of Laws, Justice of the Peace, FZS, styled Lord Geoffrey Taylour until 1893 and Earl of Bective between 1893 and 1894, was a British politician and Army officer
Background
Styled Lord Geoffrey Taylor from birth, he was the son of Thomas Taylour, 3rd Marquess of Headfort, by his second wife Emily Constantia, daughter of the Reverend Lord John Thynne. The following year, aged 16, he succeeded his father in the marquessate.
Career
He became known by the courtesy title Earl of Bective in 1893 on the death of his half-brother. Lord Headfort held a commission as Lieutenant of the 1st Life Guards, resigning in May 1901. He was an English Freemason, having been initiated in the Lodge of Assistance Number 2773 (London, England) at Golden Square, London, in February 1901, aged 22 years.
From 1922 to 1928, he served as a Senator of the Irish Free State.
They lived at Headfort House in Ireland and had three children together:
Terence Geoffrey Thomas, 5th Marquess of Headfort
Lord William Desmond Taylour (1904-1989), British archaeologist, known for his work in Mycenaean Greece. Born in Ireland and educated at Harrow School, after careers in banking and interior design in New York, and war service in North Africa, he studied archaeology and anthropology at Trinity College, Cambridge, before completing a Doctor of Philosophy on Mycenaean pottery in Italy.
His career as an excavator began in the 1950s. After the death of Alan John Bayard Wace in 1957, he took over and completed the British expedition to Mycenae.
Taylour excavated at Hagios Stephanos in Laconia between 1959 and 1977.
Lady Millicent Olivia Mary Taylour. Married 28 April 1930 (div 1936) to Henry Frederic Tiarks, a banker. They had one son, Christopher Henry Frederic (b 13 March 1931 – died April 1932).
Lady Millicent died 24 December 1975.