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William Taylor, O.B.E., F.R.S.: Born Hackney 1865, died 1937.
Co-founder in 1886 of Taylor, Taylor and Hobson. He will be remembered for raising the manufacture of lenses from an empirical craft to a scientific process. Apprenticeship: Paterson and Cooper, London.
1932: President of the I.Mech.E.
1934: Fellow of the Royal Society
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