Leonard Whitworth Taylor
(1880-1979), Headmaster, Darlington Grammar SchoolSitter in 1 portrait
by Lafayette
whole-plate film negative, 11 May 1927
NPG x48921
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Ian Kirkbride. Assistant Secretary, Marquess of Ripon Lodge No 1379 working on the Lodge's WW1 archive.
08 October 2018, 17:13
He was a Freemason - initiated in Darlington's Marquess of Ripon Lodge No 1379 in 1919 following re-patriation at the end of the war.
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Ian Kirkbride. Assistant Secretary, Marquess of Ripon Lodge No 1379 working on the Lodge's WW1 archive.
12 October 2018, 10:30
Our Lodge's (125th Anniversary) History - a record compiled by a former Lodge Secretary covering the period 1872 to 1997 - states: Darlington Grammar School Headmaster Reported Missing: April 1918.
Capt Leonard Whitworth Taylor, MA, Headmaster of Darlington Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, was reported missing in France. Recently accepted as a candidate for the Lodge, he had not been initiated. A letter of sympathy was sent to his wife during this "anxious time through which she was passing." In May 1918 he was reported a prisoner-of-war. He was initiated in March 1919.