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E.A. Taylor

E.A. Taylor

Early Life Ernest Archibald Taylor was born in Greenock on September 5th 1874. His father was a Major in the Royal Artillery, and Ernest was the 15th of a family of 17 children. His uncle brought him up, and in 1893 became an apprentice designer/engineer at the Glasgow shipbuilding firm of Scott and Co.. On its completion he worked there as a draughtsman until 1898. In 1897 he met his future wife, Jessie M King, when he moved into the same block of studio apartments in St. Vincent Street, Glasgow. They became engaged in November 1898, and around this time he began evening classes at the Glasgow School of Art, where Jessie was a full-time student.

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