John Howard Taylor
John Howard Taylor (30 June 1861, Peckham - 1 October 1925, Melbourne) was a Western Australian politician. Born in 1861 in London, he emigrated to South Africa in the 1880s and to Western Australia in early 1890 following the Ashburton rush. In January 1891, he settled in Southern Cross, where he worked as a merchant and stockbroker. Three years later, he moved his operations at Coolgardie, where a promising gold field had been just discovered. Sitting at the town council, he was elected on 3 August 1896 one of the three members of the Western Australian Legislative Council for the East Province. He was one of the ten Western Australia representatives at the 1897-1898 Australasian Federal Convention, which prepared the federation. He left the council in 1899 to focus on speculative developments which led to his ruin. He died in 1925 in Melbourne.
Sources
- Kimberly, Warren Bert (1897). "John Howard Taylor". History of West Australia: A Narrative Of Her Past Together With Biographies Of Her Leading Men. Melbourne: F. W. Niven & Co. pp. 148–9. Retrieved 31 March 2017.
- Alfred Chandler, "Men I Remember: Howard Taylor, a Spectacular Speculator", The Sunday Times, 11 July 1937, p. 21.
- John Howard Taylor on the Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia