John Taylor (born in Manchester 25 September 1942) is a British jazz pianist; he has occasionally performed on the organ and the synthesizer. He is one of Europe's most celebrated jazz pianists and composers .

John Taylor (born Nigel John Taylor on June 20, 1960 in Birmingham, England) is the bass guitarist and co-founder of the New Romantic band Duran Duran. Duran Duran was one of the most popular groups in the world during the 1980s, thanks to revolutionary music videos that played in heavy rotation in the early days of MTV, and Taylor was one of Duran Duran's most popular members.

Taylor played with Duran Duran and its changing lineups from its founding in 1978 until 1997, when he left to pursue a solo recording and film career. He made a dozen solo releases (albums, EPs, and video projects) through his company "Trust The Process" in the next four years, had a lead role in the movie Sugar Town, and made appearances in half a dozen other film projects. He rejoined Duran Duran for a full reunion of the original five members of the group in 2001.

Taylor also founded two supergroup side projects: Power Station and Neurotic Outsiders.

John Taylor (June 22, 1704 - April 4, 1766), English classical scholar, was born at Shrewsbury.

His father was a barber, and, by the generosity of one of his customers, the son, having received his early education at the grammar school of his native town, was sent to St John's College, Cambridge. In 1732 he was appointed librarian, in 1734 registrar of the university. Somewhat late in life he took orders, became rector of Lawford in Essex in 1751, and canon of St Paul’s in 1757. He died in London on April 4, 1766.

Taylor is best known for his editions of some of the Greek orators, chiefly valuable for the notes on Attic law, e.g. Lysias (1739); Demosthenes Contra Leptinem (1741) and Contra Midiam (1743, with Lycurgus Contra Leocratem), intended as specimens of a proposed edition, in five volumes, of the orations of Demosthenes, Aeschines, Dinarchus and Demades, of which only vols. ii. and iii. were published.

Taylor also published (under the title of Marinor Sandvicense) a commentary on the inscription on an ancient marble brought from Greece by Lord Sandwich, containing particulars of the receipts and expenditure of the Athenian magistrates appointed to celebrate the festival of Apollo at Delos in 374 BC. His Elements of Civil Law (1755) also deserves notice. It was severely attacked by Warburton in his Divine Legation, professedly owing to a difference of opinion in regard to the persecution of the early Christians, in reality because Taylor had spoken disparagingly of his scholarship. Taylor has a high school named after him in the village of Barton Under Needwood - Staffordshire.

John Taylor (November 1, 1808 - July 25, 1887) was the third president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1880 to 1887.

Taylor was born in Milnthorpe, Westmorland (now Cumbria), England, the son of James and Agnes Taylor. He had formal schooling up to age fourteen, and then he served an initial apprenticeship to a cooper and later received training as a woodturner and cabinetmaker. He was christened in the Church of England, but joined the Methodist church at sixteen. He was appointed a lay preacher a year later, and felt a calling to preach in America. Taylor's parents and siblings emigrated to Upper Canada (present-day Ontario) in 1830. John stayed in England to dispose of the family property and joined his family in Toronto in 1832. He met Leonora Cannon from the Isle of Man while attending a Toronto Methodist Church and, although she initially rejected his proposal, married her on January 28, 1833.

Between 1834 and 1836, John and Leonora Taylor participated in a religious study group in Toronto. The group discussed problems and concerns with their Methodist faith, and quickly became known as the "Dissenters." Other members included Joseph Fielding and his sisters Mary and Mercy, who later also became prominent in the Latter Day Saint faith.

John Taylor (1694-1761) was an English dissenting preacher, Hebrew scholar, and theologian. He studied in Whitehaven before becoming a preacher in Norwich, where he founded the Octagon Chapel in 1754. In 1757, he was appointed to Warrington Academy. His Hebrew Concordance of 1754-7 was both a concordance (based on earlier works) and a lexicon of Hebrew.

In theology, Taylor was against the doctrine of original sin in the late 1730s. In 1740, he wrote Scripture Doctrine of Original Sin, refuting the basis of Calvinism's doctrine of utter depravity of man. The work was popular among divines and laid the basis for the Unitarian movement and the American Congregationalists. John Wesley addressed his nearly 300-page work establishing original sin to Taylor in 1754. Taylor was also Arian when it came to the nature of Christ.

John Taylor (24 August, 1578 - 1653) was an English poet who dubbed himself "The Water Poet".

John Taylor (May 4, 1770–April 16, 1832) was the Democratic-Republican governor of South Carolina from 1826 to 1828. He was born May 4, 1770 in Granby, South Carolina, and was related to two U.S. Presidents: James Madison and Zachary Taylor (there seems to be no proof of this connection to Madison and Zachary Taylor). He attended Mount Zion Institute in Columbia, South Carolina, and graduated in 1790 from Princeton College and became a lawyer. He opened his practice in Columbia but also had farming interests.

After school, Taylor served in the South Carolina House of Representatives from 1796 to 1802 and again from 1804 to 1805. He was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1807, and served there until he became a U.S. Senator in 1810 filling the vacancy left by Thomas Sumter. He was elected to serve a full term beginning in 1811. As senator, he was known for his especially persuasible personality. While also serving the senate, he developed the first version of what is now known as the Taylor foundation. This foundation is a gathering of aspiring politicians to come together and talk and help each other. But soon afterwards he left federal service in 1816 and returned to his home state to become a South Carolina state senator from 1818 to 1826.

Taylor was elected to state governor in 1826. He also served as a trustee of South Carolina College (now the University of South Carolina) and as director of the Columbia Theological Seminary. His term in office was primarily known for rallying the state to oppose federal tariffs. He died in 1832 in Camden, South Carolina.

John Taylor (c. 1503 - 1554) was Bishop of Lincoln from 1552 to 1554.

Taylor served as bursar then proctor of Queens' College, Cambridge from 1523 to 1537, and master of St John's College, Cambridge from 1538 to 1546. He was rector of St Peter upon Cornhill, London, of Tatenhill, Staffordshire, Dean of Lincoln; Reformer, Commissioner for the first Prayer Book.

According to John Foxe's Book of Martyrs:

John Taylor (1752-1833) was a pioneer Baptist preacher and frontier historian in Kentucky.

Taylor was born in Fauquier County, Virginia. He united with the Baptists when he was 20 years old, and began preaching while in Virginia where he organized and served churches in the Virginia frontier settlements. He moved to Kentucky in 1783. He was soon called as the first pastor in Clear Creek Baptist Church, Woodford County, Kentucky. He moved to Boone County, Kentucky in 1795 and was the stated preacher at Bullittsburg Baptist Church, the first church in northern Kentucky, for seven years. He was ministering there during the time the church experienced revival in 1800-01 (often referred to as the "Second Great Awakening in America"); there were 113 people converted and baptized into the Bullittsburg Baptist Church. He never officially pastored another church after Clear Creek, but did regularly preach for three other Baptist churches during his lifetime. He was never financially supported by a church so he pursued farming and other vocations along with his preaching, as did most frontier preachers.

John Taylor gives personal glimpses of his early life and religious experience in his History of Clear Creek Church, "At my birth, and in the early part of my life, my lot was cast in the backwoods of Virginia, where Indians often killed people, not far from where I was. My parents, who were of the church of England, told me, I had been christened when young. Being taught in all the rules of the old prayer book, I had my partialities that way; but we lived so frontier, I never heard any man preach, till about 17 years old; this was a baptist, (William Marshall). My awakening that day, was so striking, that I was won over to Marshall, and the religion he taught. A little more than two years after this, by the conviction I had from the New Testament, I was baptised [sic], and became a baptist from principle. To this way, and cause, I have had warm and decided attachments ever since. I would not be hard or unfriendly to other christian societies; but I am a decided, full bred baptist...."

Concerning his trip to Kentucky, he wrote: ". . . We arrived at Craig's Station, a little before Christmas (1783), and about three months after our start from Virginia. Through all this rugged travel my wife was in a very helpless state; about one month after our arrival, my son Ben was born."

John Taylor attended when the Elkhorn Baptist Association (Lexington Kentucky area) was constituted in 1785. When Long Run Baptist Association (Louisville Kentucky area) was constituted in 1803, he was there and he preached the Introductory Sermon and was on the committee of organization. He became one of the early leaders of that association.

Many have said Taylor had a leading role in the Missionary / Anti-missionary movement that erupted in the United States in the 1820s, because of a booklet he wrote in 1820. In Thoughts on Missions he criticized mission societies and their methods in soliciting money from the local churches on the frontier. Taylor late in life said he probably made a mistake in writing the twenty-page pamphlet. Larry D. Smith ("John Taylor and Missions: A New Interpretation," Quarterly Review, April-June, 1982, 54-61.) has pointed out that Taylor was opposed only to "mission societies;" he was never opposed to missions. John Taylor, though not formally educated, was an expressive and strongly opinioned writer. His A History of Ten Baptist Churches was first printed in 1823, and A History of Clear Creek Church: and Campbellism Exposed in 1830; he also wrote several brief biographies, as well as many articles that were published in religious periodicals. The Concise Dictionary of American Biography describes A History of Ten Baptist Churches as "a fine picture of religion on the frontier."

James E. Welch, a frontier Baptist missionary described John Taylor: "I saw this aged brother at the meeting of the Elkhorn Association, at the Big Spring Church, near Frankfort, in 1832. He was a member of the Body; and yet he took his place on the front seat of the gallery. The Moderator, observing him, said, — 'Come down, Brother Taylor, and sit with us;' but he promptly replied, — 'I am a free man, Brother Moderator,' and kept his seat. (The gallery was a balcony where the slave members and attendees of the church were seated during worship services.) He was low of stature, muscular, had broad shoulders and a broad face, high cheek bones and heavy eye brows, over-hanging a pair of light and small, but expressive, eyes. He was plain, and by no means particular, in his apparel, and rather reserved in conversation, though, at times, he seemed to enjoy a dry joke upon his brethren." Welch continued, "His death was peaceful and tranquil, and he has left behind him a name worthy of enduring remembrance."

When John Taylor left Boone County, he did not remove himself from contact with the churches and pastors of the area. He attended associational meetings of North Bend beginning in 1805 through 1834, a total of twenty-five times, and was invited to preach virtually each time he attended. Fourteen of these visits were at Boone County churches, as they hosted the associational meetings.

Because of his pamphlet Thoughts on Missions, in which Taylor criticized missionary societies and their methods, John Taylor's name is associated with the anti-missionary movement among Baptists. Yet most of his ministry predates the missionary/anti-missionary division, and he appears to have never "divided" with his brethren over the issue. In his Baptist Encyclopedia, William Cathcart says, "He traveled and preached extensively and probably performed more labor, and was more successful than any other pioneer Baptist preacher in Kentucky."

When he wrote his "Missions" pamphlet in 1820, he gave a copy to the local (Northbend) association, which they "received for the purpose of examining the same," but they made no further comment, neither that year nor in any following year. He was invited to preach for the association that year and at later times when he attended. The Elkhorn Association meeting in 1820 reported in their Minutes, "Bro. John Taylor presented to the Association a pamphlet, written by himself, on the subject of missions, which was referred to the committee on arrangement." At a later session of the body, "after much discussion it was agreed to strike out that item from the arrangement, and return the pamphlet to the author."

Mr. Taylor presented this booklet to the Long Run Association with virtually the same response. He conducted the funeral of Absalom Graves of Boone County, KY - the leading advocate of Missions in northern Kentucky.

There have been two master's theses written about John Taylor and three essays in The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, by Dorothy Brown Thompson, a descendant of Taylor. He died in 1833 near Forks of Elkhorn Creek in Franklin County, Kentucky.

References:

Dictionary of American Biography, vol. 9

A History of Ten Baptist Churches - edited by Chester R. Young and reprinted by Mercer University Press in 1995 as Baptist Churches on the American Frontier

John Taylor (1837-1909) was an American politician who served in the New Jersey Senate and the creator Taylor Ham. He was also the founder of Taylor Provisions Company and the Taylor Opera House in Trenton, New Jersey. Taylor Street in Trenton is also named for him.

He helped to abolish the street markets of New Jersey, and served as the first president of the Inter-State Fair.

He is buried in Riverview Cemetery in Trenton.

John Taylor (c. 1480 - 1534) was Master of the Rolls from 1527 to 1534. Taylor would have been notable just for the circumstances of his birth; he was the firstborn of healthy triplets who all survived to adulthood, which was virtually unheard of in the 1400s. He went on to a successful career as a priest and civil servant, culminating in a post as Master of the Rolls from 1527 to 1534. John Taylor and Susan Rowland were the parents of Rowland Taylor, prominent Protestant martyr (d. 1555).

John Gregory Taylor (born March 31, 1962 in Pennsauken Township, New Jersey) is a former American football wide receiver with the San Francisco 49ers. Taylor attended Delaware State College and was a member of their football team, the Hornets. Taylor was a member of the 49ers teams that won Super Bowls XXIII, XXIV, and XXIX.

John Taylor (born July 21, 1946 in Watford, Hertfordshire) was a Welsh rugby union player. Nicknamed "Basil Brush" thanks to his wild hair and beard, he played as a flanker for the London Welsh RFC (of which he is now a board member), and represented Wales 26 times between 1967 and 1973.

Perhaps his most famous moment was in the Five Nations match against Scotland in 1971. The match had see-sawed backwards and forwards with each team taking the lead several times. Finally, with a few minutes to go and the score at 18-14, Wales won a line-out on the Scotland 22 metre line. The ball moved through the backs to Gerald Davies who managed to squeeze in to score a try at the right hand corner. With great presence of mind, the Scottish defence kept up the chase to prevent Davies from touching down near the posts. With the score at 18-17 and ball to be placed on the right hand side, the conversion looked almost impossible, particularly as Barry John, the usual Welsh kicker, was right footed and had been concussed earlier in the match. Instead of Barry, up stepped "Basil" and with great aplomb, stroked the ball perfectly between the posts. 19-18 and victory to Wales! One Welsh journalist called this "the greatest conversion since Saint Paul".

John Taylor played for the British and Irish Lions on the 1971 tour to New Zealand. He was notable for the stand he took against apartheid after visiting South Africa in 1968. Taylor was invited on the 1974 Lions tour to that country but made it clear he would follow his conscience and he refused to tour.

Since 1991, he has been the lead rugby commentator on ITV Sport, describing the World Cup final victory of England over Australia on 22nd November 2003. For the 2007 World Cup, Taylor appears to have been relegated to the role of third choice commentator following ITV's recruitment of Miles Harrison from Sky Sports and Jon Champion, who was previously a football commentator.

John Taylor VC (1822-25 February 1857) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

John Taylor (23 March 1933, Leicester - 8 September 1966, Koblenz, Germany) was a motor racing driver from England. He participated in 5 World Championship Formula One Grands Prix, debuting on July 11, 1964. He scored 1 championship point. He also participated in several non-championship Formula One races.

Taylor died following an accident at the 1966 German Grand Prix, when his Brabham collided with Jacky Ickx's Matra on the first lap of the race. He emerged from the wreckage badly burned, and died from his injuries four weeks later.

John Baxter Taylor, Jr. (November 3, 1882, Washington, DC – December 2 1908, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was an American track and field athlete, notable as the first African American to win an Olympic gold medal.

Taylor was a member of the gold medal medley relay team at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London. He ran the third leg, performing the 400 metres. He followed William F. Hamilton and Nathaniel Cartmell and was followed by Mel Sheppard. In both the first round and the final, Taylor received a lead from Cartmell and passed one on to Sheppard. The team won both races, with times of 3:27.2 and 3:29.4. Taylor was the first African American to win an Olympic gold medal. His split for the final was 49.8 seconds.

He advanced to the finals in the men's 400 metres race at the 1908 Summer Olympics, winning his preliminary heat with a time of 50.8 seconds and his semifinal with 49.8 seconds. In the first running of the race, Taylor came in last place out of the four runners. However, teammate John C. Carpenter was disqualified after wilfully obstructing British runner Wyndham Halswelle and the race was ordered to be repeated without Carpenter. Taylor and fellow American William Robbins declined to compete in the second final in protest of Carpenter's disqualification.

Taylor died of typhoid fever on 2 December 1908, shortly after returning from the Olympics.

Johannes Gütgemann, also known as John Taylor and John Goodman, was the founder of the Velocette motorcycle company.

Gütgemann was born in Germany around 1857 , and moved to England in 1876. He married Elizabeth Ore in 1884, settling near her home in Birmingham. They had five children together.

Shortly after his marriage, Gütgemann went into business with a partner named Barrett, who had inherited a company called "Taylor & Co." Gütgemann then adopted John Taylor as his English name, and began making bicycles and fittings.

He met another bicycle maker named William Gue, and they started building bicycles together in Birmingham in 1896 under the name "Taylor Gue Ltd". In 1904 they took over the Belgian firm Kelekom Motors and began experimenting with motorized bicycles, and created their first motorcycle, the 2 horsepower Veloce, in 1905. It struggled on the marketplace and Taylor Gue collapsed.

Taylor then founded the company Veloce Limited in late 1905 to market motorcycles and related products.

In 1911, Taylor became a naturalized British citizen, and in 1917 formally anglicized his German name to John Goodman. His sons Percy and Eugene Goodman also became involved with Veloce and several related companies.

In 1913, the company first used the trade name Velocette for a small two stroke motorcycle invented by Percy, and the name was then used for many later cycles as well. Velocette achieved great success with four stroke engines in the mid-1920s, and became a common name on racing tracks and record books.

The Velocette company folded in 1971, as both rising development costs and the owners' racing expenses took their toll on the company's bottom line.

John Taylor was a pirate who lived in the early 18th century.

At Reunion Island (off the coast of Madagascar) in April 1721, he captured the most valuable prize in pirate history, variously described as "Nostra Senora della Cabo", "Nostra Senhora do Cabo", or "Nossa Senhora do Cabo".

John Taylor (1781-1864) was a publisher, essayist, and writer born in East Retford, Nottinghamshire, the son of James Taylor and Sarah Drury. Although in pyramidical circles, he may be remembered for his contributions to Pyramidology and his use of that subject in the fight against adopting the metric system of measurements, his real fame is as the publisher of both Keats and John Clare.

"Chevalier" John Taylor (1703–1772) was the first in a long line of British eye surgeons. While there is some evidence that he showed promise as an eye surgeon early in his career, it became evident that his major talent was that of self-promotion.

Dubbing himself "Chevalier" and "Ophthalmiater Royal," Taylor became the self-proclaimed personal eye surgeon to King George II, the Pope and number of European royal families. He was as famous for his womanizing as for his surgical skills. Prior to performing each surgical procedure, he would deliver a long, self-promoting speech delivered in an unusual oratorial style. (John Barrell, London Review of Books, 2004)

He was a coucher, or cataract surgeon, who performed removal of cataracts by breaking them up into pieces. He has been accused by some for accelerating the process by which composer Georg Handel became blind. Others believe that Johann Sebastian Bach died of complications due to his surgery. (Trevor-Roper, Documents of Ophthalmology, 1989)

He traveled throughout Europe in a coach painted with images of eyes. His arrival in a town would be publicised several days in advance to draw the largest crowd and he claimed to be able to cure misaligned eyes with his surgical skills. His trick was to make a small incision in the conjunctiva of the eye and cover the other eye. He would then instruct the patient to leave the eye covered for seven days, during which interval he would contrive to leave town and be as far away as possible, when the eye covering was removed.

Writer Samuel Johnson uses Taylor's life and career as an example of "how far impudence may carry ignorance."

He died in obscurity in 1772, after spending the last years of his life completely blind.

Sir John Taylor KCB FRIBA (15 November 1833 - 30 April 1912) was a British architect. The assistant surveyor for London from 1866 onwards, he was known as a reliable (albeit pedestrian) architect and was responsible for several public building projects in the capital.

Taylor's most active period as an architect began in 1879 with the construction of Bow Street Magistrates' Court. From 1883–4 he judged the competition for the Admiralty and War Office buildings in Whitehall, and in 1886 designed additions to Marlborough House. He was also involved in engineering projects such as the extension of the Thames Embankment across Millbank. His work for museums includes the White Wing of the British Museum and the central staircase and other additions to the National Gallery, both in the 1880s.

In 1898, when Taylor was nearing retirement, he was appointed as co-architect of the War Office building due to the death of its original architect William Young. The added workload accelerated the decline in his health and he resigned from his post after the building's completion in 1906.

John Taylor (22 July 1902 - 1 March 1962) was a British Labour Party politician who served as Member of Parliament for West Lothian.

He was first elected at the 1951 general election, and his death in 1962 at the age of 60 caused a hotly-contested by-election, in which William Wolfe of the Scottish National Party was beaten by Labour's Tam Dalyell.

John Taylor is a retired hurling and gaelic football player from County Laois, Ireland.

John normally played at left half back in his preferred game hurling and won 8 Laois Senior Hurling Championship medals with his club, Portlaoise.

He also won Laois Senior Football Championship medals with Portlaoise.

Since ending his playing career, John has moved into the area of team management with Trumera, Mountrath and Laois.

John Taylor (23 December 1857 - 19 September 1936) was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Dumbarton Burghs from 1918 to 1922.

He was a Liberal, and in the British House of Commons a supporter of David Lloyd George's coalition government.

He was replaced as MP by David Kirkwood.

John Taylor (born 24th October 1964) is an English ex-professional footballer who is currently manager of Newmarket Town F.C. As a player, striker Taylor made over 500 league appearances, scoring 153 goals, the majority of which were for Cambridge United.

Justice John Idowu Conrad Taylor (24 August 1917 - 7 November 1973)Nigerian judicial legend, whose great passion for justice and fair play was balanced by his judicial conservatism which favoured an unsentimental strict interpretation of the law and a rigid adherence to precedent.He was an advocate of judicial restraint and a passive approach to developing the law, and was completely opposed to judicial legislation by activist judges. He was the first Chief Justice of Lagos, Nigeria (1964 - 1973). He was notable for his courage, independence, judicial boldness and integrity.

John Taylor was a first-class cricketer who played nine first class matches for Yorkshire County Cricket Club in 1880 and 1881. He had made his first class debut for the North of England against the South in 1875.

He was born on April 2, 1850 in Pudsey, Yorkshire and played for the Batley Victoria Club, captaining them in the 1870s. During the 1880s he was engaged by the Armley Club. A right handed batsman, he scored 110 runs at 7.85 with a best of 44 against. He took 4 catches in the field but his right arm, round arm medium bowling was not called upon. He worked as a clerk and traveling salesman and died in Boston Spa, on May 27, 1924.

John Taylor was a United States Representative from South Carolina. His birth date is unknown. Taylor was a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives, 1802–1805. He was elected as a Republican to the Fourteenth Congress (March 4, 1815–March 3, 1817) but was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Fifteenth Congress in 1816 and for election to the Seventeenth Congress in 1820. His death date is unknown.

John Taylor (born December 18, 1923) was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler who played for Hampshire. He was born in Ipswich.

Taylor made his first two County Championship appearances during the 1947 season, in which Hampshire finished second-bottom in the County Championship, his debut performance coming in a tie against Lancashire in which Taylor performed well from a lower-order position. His second appearance saw Hampshire bat well once again, but the team's innings of 308 all out was overshadowed by Len Hutton's season-best score of 270 not out, which included a fifth-wicket partnership of 373 runs with fellow Test batsman Norman Yardley.

Taylor made one further appearance in the County Championship in the 1949 season, as well as making two appearances for the Hampshire Second XI in the Minor Counties Championship during the same year.

John Taylor (July 2, 1849 — March 2, 1921) was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm round-arm medium-pace bowler who played for Nottinghamshire during the 1876 season. Taylor was born and died in Beeston.

Taylor made one first-class appearance for Nottinghamshire, in a County match against Gloucestershire in which he was bowled by Edward Grace in the first innings, and caught off the bowling of Edward's brother, WG Grace, in the second.

Taylor scored just one run during the match and did not play first-class cricket again.

John Taylor (born June 9, 1937) was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and wicket-keeper who played for Essex and Marylebone Cricket Club. He was born in West Ham.

Taylor's first representative cricket match came in a Royal Air Force XI against Yorkshire during the 1957 season, while he played his debut Second XI Championship match against Middlesex Second XI in 1959. A regular in the Second XI side during his first season, his debut first-class match came during 1960, in a match against Oxford University. His debut in the County Championship came just two months later, in a defeat to Derbyshire. He played four further County Championship matches during the season, as the team finished in sixth place in the County Championship.

Taylor featured occasionally during the following season, achieving both of his career half-centuries, including a career-high 86 against Somerset. Taylor's final County Championship appearance came towards the end of July 1961, in a match in which he finished the second innings with a duck. Essex finished seventh in the table, a slight decline on the previous year's performance, but Taylor was out of the team from then on.

Taylor made one further first-class appearance, just a day after his thirtieth birthday, playing for Marylebone Cricket Club against Cambridge University, a full six years after his final County Championship appearance.

John Taylor (born 25 June 1949, Birmingham) is a former English professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He played in The Football League for three clubs during the 1970s.