Norman Tailyour

General Sir Norman Hastings Tailyour, (12 December 1914 – 28 December 1979) was a Royal Marines officer who served as Commandant General Royal Marines from 1965 to 1968.

Military career Tailyour was commissioned into the Royal Marines in 1933. He served in the Second World War as commander of the Royal Marines on the Landing Craft Base HMS Robertson from 1943, as executive officer on the Land Craft Base HMS St Mathew from later that year and then as commander of 27th Battalion Royal Marines in North West Europe from 1945.

Tailyour was appointed commanding officer of 45 Commando in 1954.

Tailyour became commander of the Royal Marine Barracks at Plymouth in 1957, chief of staff to the Amphibious Warfare Representative in Washington D. C. in 1958 and commander of 3 Commando Brigade in 1960. and promoted to Knight Commander in the 1966 Birthday Honours. He became Commandant General Royal Marines in 1965 before retiring in 1968.

Personal life Tailyour's son, Ewen Southby-Tailyour, was also a Royal Marines officer, who served with distinction in Dhofar and the Falklands War.