Frederick Williams-Taylor
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October 23, 1863
Sir Frederick Williams-Taylor | |
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| Born | Frederick William Taylor October 23, 1863 |
| Died | August 2, 1945 (aged 81) |
| Known for | General manager of the Bank of Montreal |
| Spouse |
Jane Fayrer Henshaw
(m. 1888) |
| Children | 2 |
| Relatives | Brenda Frazier (granddaughter) |
Sir Frederick Williams-Taylor (October 23, 1863 – August 2, 1945) was a Canadian banker. He was general manager of the Bank of Montreal.
Frederick was born in Moncton, New Brunswick on October 23, 1863. He was the son of Ezekiel Moore Taylor, from County Donegal, Ireland, and Rosaline (née Beatty) Taylor, born in Moncton, New Brunswick.[1]
His paternal great-grandfather was Capt. Moore (d. 1849) of Buncrana Castle in Inishowen, Ireland (third son of William Thornton-Todd, heir of both Isaac Todd, the prominent Montreal merchant with the North West Company, and William Thornton, a British Army officer who served as Lieutenant Governor of Jersey)[2] and his maternal great-grandfather was Joseph Morse (30 Nov 1721 Medfield MA-1769 Amherst, Nova Scotia), a pre-Loyalist planter to Nova Scotia.[1] This Irish ancestry has not been proven.
Williams-Taylor was educated at the Moncton Superior School until he began working in 1878.[1] In 1914, he was honored with the honorary degree of doctor of laws by the University of New Brunswick.[3]
Career
In 1878, Williams-Taylor joined the Bank of Montreal and by 1897, he was appointed Assistant Inspector, Head Office. In 1903, he became the Joint Manager of the bank in Chicago and by 1906, he was promoted to Manager of the bank in London, England, and eventually, and General Manager of the bank in 1913.[4]
In 1913, Frederick Williams-Taylor was knighted by King George V,[5] and combined his middle name and birth surname into a new hyphenated surname. He received an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from the University of New Brunswick in 1915.[4]
