ALFRED PERRING TAYLOR.
 


	Alfred Perring Taylor, Deputy Provincial Treasurer for the province
of Saskatchewan since 1913, was born October 8, 1872, at Oota-camund,
Neilgherry Hills in the Madras Presidency, India, the son of William
Thomas Taylor and Adela Louisa (nee Perring).  His grandfather on
the paternal side was Captain Taylor, Paymaster of the Madras Forces,
while his father, though born in Ireland, spent much of his early life in
India, where he was engaged in the banking business. His grandfather
Perring was Chief Justice of Ceylon. His great-grandfather was Sir John
Perring, Baronet, banker and Lord Mayor of London.
	The family returned to England about 1874, where the son was reared
and educated. Mrs. Taylor was a communicant of the Church of Eng-
land.  Mr. Taylor was a Presbyterian and also a Mason, having been
initiated into the grand lodge of Ireland in 1836. A. Perring Taylor was
in 1889 apprenticed to one of the large Joint Stock Banks, serving five
years and afterward had a diversified business experience in London,
England, in secretarial and accounting work. He came to Winnipeg in
1903, but shortly thereafter settled in Grenfell, where he tried farming,
but found himself ill adapted to the life.  In 1905 he came to Regina
and accepted a position in the Treasury Department of the government,
where he remained for five years, but resigned to carry on business for
himself as a public accountant.  He returned to the Treasury Depart-
ment as Deputy Provincial Treasurer in February, 1913. The position
is a responsible one, as all the finances of the province, under legisla-
tion, have to be handled by the Treasury.
	Mr. Taylor was married in January, 1895, to Mary Constance Middle-
coat, who was born in the Madras Presidency, India.  Her father was
Colonel Frank Middlecoat, Commandant at Pallavurum, Madras.  Mr.
and Mrs. Taylor are the parents of six children:  Dorothy Olive, born
in November, 1895, is married to Henry William Romney Rambaut of
Regina, and they have a son, Sidney Clement, born in May, 1921; Gladys
Mary, born in January, 1897, was married to Ernest Alexander Harris
of Regina; Kathleen Irene, born in July, 1898, was married to Joseph Mac~
Dougall of Winnipeg, Manitoba; Clement Perring, born in February,
1900, enlisted in the Sixty-eighth Batt. of the Canadian Expeditionary
Forces and served overseas in the Great war; Phyllis Ethel, born in Octo-
ber, 1903, was married to Donald Fraser Sturrock of Victoria, British
Columbia; and Blanche Elaine, born in July, 1911, died in September, 1911.
Mr. Taylor is a Royal Arch Mason and belongs to the Assiniboia Club
and the Regina Golf Club. His particular hobbies are golf, billiards and
painting.






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