Mr. H. M. Taylor, F.R.S

Abstract

HENRY MARTYN TAYLOR at the time of his death the senior on the roll of fellows of Trinity College, cambridge, was born at Bristol on June6, 1842,the second son of the Rev. James Taylor, D,D. After being educated at Wakefield Grammar School, of which his father had become headmaster, he was sent to Cambridge, being elected to a scholar- ship at his college. He graduated as third wrangler and was awarded the second Smith's Prize in 1865; in that year the late Lord Rayleigh was senior wrangler and first Smith's prizeman, and the well-known economist Alfred Marshall was second wrangler. In the year of his graduation, Taylor was appointed vice-principal (with H. J. Purkiss, the senior wrangler of 1864, as principal) of the newly established Royal School of Naval Architeeture and Marine Engineering at South Kensington, afterwards the Royal Naval College at Greenwich. Taylor's most distinguished pupil was Sir W. H. White, later Naval Constructor; the relation, there begun, lasted until the death of the younger man in 1913.