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Sir William Ling Taylor, CBE (29 May 1882 – 5 January 1969) was a British civil servant and forester.

Born on 29 May 1882, Taylor was educated at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, receiving a diploma in forestry. He worked as a land agent from 1901 to 1909, then began working for the state.

Taylor entered the Forestry Commission in 1919 and served as the assistant commissioner for England and Wales from 1932 to 1938, when he was appointed a forestry commissioner. He was the inaugural Deputy Director-General of the Forestry Commission, serving from 1945 to 1947 (being succeeded by Arthur Gosling), and was then Director-General from 1947 to 1948, in succession to Sir Roy Robinson; on his retirement, he was succeeded as Director-General by Gosling. He remained on the commission in 1949. He had also been in the Home Timber Production Department of the wartime Ministry of Supply from 1939 to 1941.

Taylor, who had been president of the Society of Foresters of Great Britain from 1936 to 1938, was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1945 New Year Honours, and was knighted in the 1949 New Year Honours. He died on 5 January 1969.

References

  1. ^ "Taylor, Sir William (Ling)", Who Was Who (online ed., Oxford University Press, 2021). Retrieved 6 February 2022.
  2. ^ "Sir William Taylor", The Times, 7 January 1969, p. 8. Gale CS137981991.
  3. "Forestry Commission", The Times, 1 December 1945, p. 4. Gale CS69026177.
  4. ^ "Forestry Commission Appointments", The Times, 29 March 1947, p. 4. Gale CS69551229.
  5. ^ "Sir W. Ling Taylor, C.B.E.", Forestry: An International Journal of Forest Research, vol. 42, no. 2 (1969), p. 202.
  6. "Forestry Commission Changes", The Times, 1 June 1948, p. 2. Gale CS35342017.
  7. The London Gazette, 29 December 1944 (supplement, issue 36866), p. 27.
  8. The London Gazette, 31 December 1948 (supplement, issue 38493), p. 2.
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