Alexander Burt Taylor
Alexander Burt Taylor,
Life
Alexander Burt Taylor was born 6 June 1904 at Earlston, Berwickshire, Scotland, the son of Rev A. B. Taylor of the United Free Church of Scotland.
Following schooling at the Hamilton Academy his father moved to the Paterson United Free Church in Kirkwall on Orkney in 1919, so he completed his schooling at Kirkwall Grammar School. Taylor matriculated at the University of Edinburgh and graduated MA in 1925.
He taught at schools in Stirling and Falkirk in Scotland, then at Columbia University, New York.[1]
In 1933, he became a School Inspector for the
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In 1961 Taylor was invested
He was succeeded in his role as Registrar General in 1955 by James Allan Ford.
He died at 35 Balgreen Road, a modest semi-detached house in western Edinburgh on 13 March 1972.
Publications
Taylor was also a Scandinavian philologist and author of a translation of The Orkneying Saga: A new translation with introduction and notes (1938), and British and Irish place-names in Old Norse literature (1953). He was awarded the degree of Doctor of Letters by the University of Edinburgh. Taylor died on 13 March 1972 at the age of 67.[1]
Family
He married twice: firstly to Jean Allardyce, and, following Jean's death in 1959, he married Elizabeth.
References
- ^ a b c Archives Hub, University of Manchester. Papers of Dr. Alexander Burt Taylor Archived 16 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2011-04-16
- ^ General Register Office for Scotland, history and list of Registrars General Archived 16 May 2011 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2011-04-16
- ^ Royal Society of Edinburgh. List of Fellows Archived 28 August 2008 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2011-04-16
- ISBN 0 902 198 84 X. Archived from the original(PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 28 October 2018.
External links
- General Register Office for Scotland Archived 19 December 2009 at the Wayback Machine