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Profile: John Taylor
John Taylor was born in Bottesford in North Lincolnshire. Apart from short absences as a sergeant in the army and a student at college, he has lived in villages in this lovely part of the county for all his life.
After completing his teacher training in Sheffield, John worked in local schools
for forty years, twenty-five of them as a head teacher. On retirement from
teaching, he qualified as a school inspector and spent another eight years
working in that capacity.
His wife Mary - they married in 1962 - is a RCN nurse and is due to retire in the near future. Their three sons all enjoy successful careers in education and engineering and the family, which remains very close, also includes seven grandchildren who do their best to keep John and Mary up to date with current trends.
Now fully retired, John had originally hoped to follow his major sporting interests and a shared love of gardening, the countryside, bird-watching and walking with his wife but a major back operation left him partially disabled and this meant he had to find other hobbies. Hence he developed an interest in the village Church which, in Tudor times, was closely associated with the noble Ayscough family whose ancestral manor house was situated in Stallingborough - John and Mary's home village for almost forty years.
Noting the many discrepancies and erroneous stories that had been previously published about Anne Ayscough (Askewe), John decided to research her life thoroughly. Although historical documents revealed many important events in Anne's short existence there were also significant gaps. Thus John took the authentic historical information he discovered and used a little poetic licence to fill in the gaps. He adopted a different tact to authors of normal history books and wrote Anne Askewe's story as a novel. The result was John's first published book.
John then went on to complete his second book - Education Glorious Salvation - which GoldStar once more had the privilege to publish.
This is an account of John's life up to the age of twelve; the early school years that sparked his enthusiasm to learn and set him on the road for a career in teaching.
It is a great read full of humorous incidents that will probably rekindle many memories of your own primary education.
John's Work
The Path to Martyrdom
Education Glorious Salvation
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