Francis Pringle Taylor

Robert Taylor, of Blairgowrie, Scotland, and joined the navy as a cadet in 1866.

[2] After serving in several ships he was invalided and came to Australia in 1879, where from 1880 to 1884 he was lieutenant in command of the colonial corvette HMS Wolverine.

[2] From 1888 to 1892 Taylor served in the Queensland gunboat HMQS Gayundah as first lieutenant.

[2] In October 1888 the commander of the Gayundah Captain Henry Townley Wright, after a dispute with authorities, was ordered to turn the gunboat over to Taylor.

[1] In 1899 he returned to England and settled at Saltash, and in 1901 was given charge of the Naval Employment Agency at Devonport, Devon.