Arthur Enfield Taylor died suddenly from heart failure at his residence, Rothamsted Lodge, Harpenden, Herts, on October 3rd, 1931, at the age of 56. He was at his office in Queen Street Place on the previous day, to all appearance in his usual good health.
He was the son of the late Mr. Henry Enfield Taylor, of Hawarden and on leaving Rugby was engaged for a short time in mining and civil engineering work as assistant to his father, who practised in Chester. In 1898, he became associated with the firm of John Taylor & Sons as an assistant and was taken into partnership in 1903 on the retirement of his uncle, the late Mr. John Taylor (grandson of the founder of the firm).
He frequently went abroad on the business of the firm, to Burma, Egypt, the Sudan, and Brazil, but chiefly to India. In 1900 he visited that country with Mr. Edgar Taylor (then also a partner in the firm) and was largely instrumental in obtaining the concession from the Mysore Government which resulted in the installation of the Cauvery Falls electric power scheme which has been of so great benefit to the Kolar goldfield and the surrounding district.
During the War he was Deputy-Assistant Secretary of the Explosives Supply Department, and head of the Staff Bureau of the Ministry of Munitions, which he initiated and organized. From his Rugby days, when he was in the Fifteen, to the close of his life he was always keenly interested in sport of all kinds, especially in cricket, and was an outstanding figure in the social amenities attaching to this form of recreation in Hertfordshire.
At his death he was one of the four remaining partners in John Taylor & Sons, the others being his elder brother, Henry Claude Taylor, and his two cousins, Kenneth Baring Taylor and Sydney Enfield Taylor.
Mr. Arthur Taylor was elected a Member of the Institution in 1909.
Vol. 41, Trans IMM 1931-32, p.661
