George Augustine Taylor (1872 - 1928), by unknown photographer, 1920s, courtesy of National Library of Australia. nla.pic-an24152004. .Image Details

TAYLOR, GEORGE AUGUSTINE (1872-1928), craftsman and journalist, was born on 1 August 1872 in Sydney, second son of George Faulty Taylor, native-born fruiterer, and his Irish wife Annie Maria, née McFadden. Educated at the Marist Brothers' St Mary's High School and Sydney Technical College, he learned a trade in building. Through the 1890s Taylor lived chiefly by cartooning, especially for the Bulletin and Punch (London); he mixed with various artistic-literary sets, belonged to the Dawn and Dusk Club and was a council-member of the (Royal) Art Society of New South Wales. Around 1900 Taylor's interests shifted. Fascinated by technology, he saw in wireless and telephony evidence for his deepening faith in spiritualism. As a businessman, he manufactured 'bagasse', a cement-plaster which he used to present motifs of Australian fauna ...

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Australian Dictionary of Biography