Frederick Williams-Taylor

Sir Frederick Williams-Taylor
Born (1863-10-23)October 23, 1863
Moncton, New Brunswick
Died 1945
Known for General manager of the Bank of Montreal.

Sir Frederick Williams-Taylor (October 23, 1863–1945) was a Canadian banker. He was general manager of the Bank of Montreal.

Born in Moncton, New Brunswick, the son of Ezekiel Moore Taylor and Rosalind Beatty, Williams-Taylor joined the Bank of Montreal in 1878. He was appointed Assistant Inspector, Head Office in 1897; Joint Manager, Chicago in 1903; Manager in London, England in 1906; and General Manager in 1913.[1]

He married the former Jane Fayrer Henshaw, daughter of Mr. Joshua Henshaw of Montreal in June 1888, and they had a daughter, Brenda Germaine Henshaw Williams-Taylor. In 1917 their daughter married Frank Duff Frazier, who came from a prosperous Boston family. Their daughter Brenda Frazier was the famous American debutante popular during the Depression era.

Just before her daughter's wedding in Montreal in December 1917, Lady Williams-Taylor was painted by the Swiss-born American society artist Adolfo Muller-Ury at Nassau in the Bahamas, after which he attended the wedding ceremony.[2]

Frederick Williams-Taylor was knighted in 1913,[3] and combined his middle name and birth surname into a new hyphenated surname. He received an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from the University of New Brunswick in 1915.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 A cyclopædia of Canadian biography. Toronto: Hunter-Rose Company. 1919.
  2. ↑ American Art News, Vol. 15, No. 25, New York, 31 March 1917, p. 8: ‘A. Muller-Ury has had a busy winter painting portraits. Among his most recent works are a three-quarter length of Lady William Taylor, of Montreal, which he painted at Nassau.’
  3. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 28690. p. 1147. 14 February 1913. Retrieved 2010-01-13.


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