John Taylor, Baron Ingrow

Who was John Taylor, Baron Ingrow?

John Aked Taylor, Baron Ingrow, OBE, TD, DL, JP, was a British soldier, brewer and Conservative politician.

Born to Percy and Gladys Taylor, he was educated at Shrewsbury School. During World War II Taylor served in the Duke of Wellington's Regiment and subsequently with the Royal Signals with whom he carried out decoding work in Norway, the Middle East, north Africa, Italy, north-west Europe, and Burma and was decorated with the Territorial Decoration in 1951.

Taylor was for 40 years chairman and managing director of Timothy Taylor & Co, the family brewery in Keighley, West Yorkshire founded by his grandfather Timothy Taylor in 1858.

Taylor was a member of Keighley Town Council for 21 years from 1946, serving as Mayor in 1956. For nearly 20 years Taylor was a member of the Executive Committee of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations; for five years he served as its chairman.

In 1960, Taylor was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire. He was knighted in 1972 and created a life peer as Baron Ingrow, of Keighley in the County of West Yorkshire on 31 January 1983.