Austin Taylor (1858 – 27 April 1955) was a Conservative Party, later Liberal Party, politician in the United Kingdom.
Early life
Taylor was born in Everton in 1858, the son of Rev. William Taylor, a vicar and later Archdeacon of Liverpool. His brother W. F. Taylor was a KC in the Northern Circuit and Recorder of Bolton and his brother Gerald Kyffin-Taylor was MP for Liverpool Kirkdale from 1910 to 1915. He was educated at Liverpool College and at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he took his BA degree in 1880. Joining the steamship and merchants company Messrs. Hugh Evans and Co., he succeeded as head of the firm on the death of his uncle Hugh Evans in 1891.
Political career
