Leslie Fernandes Taylor

Leslie Fernandes Taylor
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Born	1889
Residence	Stancliffe, Mount Villas, York Principal, Government High School, Bassein, Burma [1915] Principal, Government High School, Rangoon, Burma [1919] 2a Shan Road, Rangoon, Burma [1921]
Occupation	anthropologist
Society Membership membership ordinary fellow left 1932 struck off elected_AI 1915.01.19 1916.01.19

Notes

House Notes

1914.12.15 proposed by H.J. Braunholtz, seconded by T.A. Joyce
1932. 01.26 The names of the following Fellows to be removed from the list of Fellows: Messrs N.F. Hall, W.J. Lewis Abbott, Arthur Michael Forde, Dr Heinrich Krause, D.S. Reddi, Nathaniel F. Robarts, Leslie F. Taylor, E.N. Fallaize, Capt. D.A.G. Dallas, Mr M.H. Krishniengar, Dr J.W. Tomb.

Notes From Elsewhere

Leslie Fernandes Taylor BA (Cantab) was born in York in 1889. His father was Harold Dennis Taylor,
the inventor of the famous ‘Cooke Triplet’ photographic lens (1893), and his mother was believed to
be Portuguese, hence his middle name ‘Fernandes’. Whilst studying Natural Sciences at Clare College
Cambridge (1909-1912), Taylor became interested in the study of anthropology and he made the acquaintance of noted academics connected with its development as a profession, whose patronage
he enjoyed. Archibald Rose and A. C. Haddon (1855-1940)3 both supported Taylor’s application to
join the Indian Education Service,4 as his third-class degree made him ineligible for the Indian Civil
Service (ICS).
5 Supported by leading university anthropologists of the day, an appointment in the IES
in Burma was contrived for Taylor through use of the ‘old boys’ network’ and the right contacts at
the India Office in London, which would allow him the opportunity of pursuing important
anthropological studies whilst in Burma [from: Carol Ann Boshier Leslie Fernanes Taylor and the ‘Lost’ Linguistic and Ethnographical Survey of Burma]

Publications

External Publications

The ethnographical and linguistic survey of Burma : an account of its institution and progress, together with proposals for its completion by L. F Taylor( Book )

Extracts from the Burma Census Report and Tables of 1921 relating to Languages and Races. (By Mr. L.F. Taylor.) by Louis Mountbatten Mountbatten of Burma

History of the "Ethnographical and linguistic survey of Burma" and of attempts to save it together with relevant correspondence by L. F Taylor( Book )

The general structure of languages spoken in Burma by L. F Taylor( Book )