George Taylor was born in Sheffield on 19 August 1875.  His early life is difficult to trace, but in 1898 at St Mary’s Church he married Adelaide née Laughton (1876-1972).  In 1901, George (a fruit knife cutler) and Adelaide were living at Lancing Road.  In the Census (1911), the couple were enumerated at Bramall Lane, with two daughters and a son.  By 1958, when he was featured in a local newspaper, he had completed over sixty years in the trade (Star, 12 September 1958).  He had joined J. Y. Cowlishaw as a boy and had only recently been persuaded to retire due to an accident.   Throughout his career George had specialised in silver folding fruit knives and was described as the last in his trade.  A photograph of George Taylor in his workshop, using a parser to inlay a shield, is held by the Hawley Collection at Kelham Island.   George Taylor’s death may have been in 1965, aged 90.