Background
Taylor was born on 5 April 1928 the son of Colonel Richard Reynell Taylor.
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Reynell Taylor
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He was educated at Wellington College before moving on the Sandhurst.
Career
Taylor was commissioned into the 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards in December 1948 who were based at Sabratha in Libya. In 1957 he joined the Staff College at Camberley followed by a two-year exchange appointment in Canada. On return from Canada he returned to the staff college as an instructor.
On promotion to lieutenant-colonel in 1967 he joined the Defence Planning Staff in Singapore.
In 1967 he moved to Germany to command his regiment, two-years later a now a full Colonel he returned to the Staff College. Taylor was promoted to Brigadier and became Commander of 12th Armoured Brigade in September 1972 at Osnabruck.
In 1975 he attended the Royal College of Defence Studies in London before becoming Deputy Director of Military Operations at the Ministry of Defence in January 1976 and Commander of British Forces Cyprus and Administrator of the Sovereign Base Areas in May 1978. Taylor was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath on 12 June 1981.
Taylor left the Army in 1984 and became director of the Middle East Training Centre in Nicosia, Cyprus before returning to Somerset, England in 1987 where he bought a farm.
Taylor then became involved as a consultant in the concrete industry and later spent time in the Middle East involved in a technology transfer programme for concrete batching plants as part of the First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Yamamah arms deal.
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British