George Pritchard Taylor
Indian-born grammarian and numismatist of Northern Irish family origin
About George Pritchard Taylor
Lived 1854 – 1921 (aged 66–67). George Pritchard Taylor was an Indian missionary.
George Pritchard Taylor (born Cambay, 1854; date of death unknown) was an Indian-born grammarian and numismatist of Northern Irish family origin.
He was son of J. V. S. Taylor, translator of the Bible into Gujarati, grandson of Joseph Taylor (missionary) of Belgaum, and probably great-grandson of John Taylor, M.D., assistant surgeon in Bombay.
George P. Taylor was ordained at Belfast in September 1877. Then at Surat 1878. For 28 years he was principal of the Stevenson Divinity College, named after William Fleming Stevenson (1832–1886), Ahmadabad.
Taylor participated at the observing expedition of K D Naegamvala for the total solar eclipse of 1898 January 22.
He revised and expanded the grammar of his father J. V. S. Taylor. His main numismatic work was The Coins of Tipu Sultan, Calcutta, 1914 (reprint, New Delhi, 1989).
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Indian-born grammarian and numismatist of Northern Irish family origin
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George Pritchard Taylor was born in 1854 in Khambhat.
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George Pritchard Taylor died in 1921.
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George Pritchard Taylor was a missionary.
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George Pritchard Taylor was Indian.
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