Researching Richard Taylor

Taylor received the 2015 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics "for numerous breakthrough results in the theory of automorphic forms, including the Taniyama–Weil conjecture, the local Langlands conjecture for general linear groups, and the Sato–Tate conjecture." He also received the 2007 Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences for his work on the Langlands program with Robert Langlands. He also served on the Mathematical Sciences jury for the Infosys Prize from 2012 to 2014.

Taylor, from Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, learned to skate because he wanted to become a stuntman. He turned professional at the age of 15 after winning the World Amateur International Inline Skate Series (IISS) and qualifying 6th in the Professional Competition in Amsterdam 1996.He went on to win the UK National In-Line skating championship twice. Taylor had a large fanbase, especially in Europe. He also competed in the British Freestyle Skiing and Snowboarding Championships in Les Deux Alpes in March 2004, winning the Big Air ski title and was about to join the Line Skis Professional Team that winter season.

In 1856 he became Senior Classical Master at Bramham College, Tadcaster; and two years later he moved to the same position at Wesley College, Sheffield. While there he gained a B.A. degree from King's College London. He also served as an Assistant Master at Leeds Grammar School.

In 1863 he was ordained deacon, taking his priest's orders the following year. He held a number of curacies, including St Barnabas, Holbeck, Wortley, Brightside near Sheffield and Edlington. In 1878 he became Vicar of Melbecks, Swaledale. He died at the age of 83 years, on 8 July 1914, at his home, The Mount, Low Row, Swaledale.

A Fellow of the Royal Horticultural Society and a member of the Yorkshire Archaeological and Topographical Association, he also published and contributed to publications on the history of Yorkshire.

Some members of the family preferred the spelling Taylour.

Taylor was the son of Richard Taylor, counsellor at law, of Grymsbury, Bolnhurst, Bedfordshire and his wife Elizabeth Boteler daughter of William Boteler of Biddenham, Bedfordshire. He was baptised on 20 March 1620. He matriculated at Magdalen College, Oxford on 17 June 1636 aged 16 was a student of Lincoln’s Inn in 1637. He succeeded to a share in his father's estate at Clapham, Bedfordshire in 1641. He served in the Royalist army in the Civil War under Sir Ralph Hopton without apparently any military rank. His share of the Clapham estate was sequestered and in 1647 he was fined £450 for delinquency. In 1655 was assessed at £90 for decimation . At the Restoration it was written that he had "continued faithful in the late war to the surrender of Oxford, and hath been several times since imprisoned for his fidelity to your Majesty". He was one of those proposed for the order of Knight of the Royal Oak with an estate of £1,000 a year.

Taylor was a J.P. for Bedfordshire from July 1660, and Deputy Lieutenant for Bedfordshire and commissioner for assessment for Bedfordshire from August 1660, holding these positions until his death. He was a J.P. for Bedford in September 1660. In 1661, he was elected Member of Parliament for Bedford in the Cavalier Parliament. There was a double return, but Taylor’s election was not affected. He was J.P. for Bedford in 1661 and became commissioner for assessment Bedford in 1661. He was J.P. for Bedford again in 1662 and also commissioner for loyal and indigent officers for Bedfordshire.

Taylor died at the age of 47 and was buried at Clapham.

Taylor married by licence dated 17 May 1648, Catherine Bosdon, daughter of Edward Bosdon of the Middle Temple and had five sons and three daughters.

Taylor was born in 1902 in Fort William, Ontario, in Canada. In the 1920s, he contributed to Toronto-based publications; he contributed for a year to Toronto Telegram newspaper, from 1927 to the University of Toronto's humour magazine The Goblin, and the Communist Party of Canada newspaper The Worker. Aside from cartooning, he produced commercial art and in his spare time painted. In 1935, The New Yorker began publishing his work, and he thereafter moved to the United States, where there were more opportunities for better pay for cartoonists. He married Maxine MacTavish in Toronto, Ontario and they had no children Taylor died in West Redding, Connecticut, in the United States in 1970 of prostate cancer. The National Gallery of Canada has been gifted the vast majority of his lifetime's works.