William Francis Kyffin Taylor, 1st Baron Maenan GBE KC JP DL (9 July 1854 – 22 September 1951) was a prominent English barrister and judge.
[4] Other offices he held included Recorder of Bolton in 1901–03,[5] Bencher of the Inner Temple in 1905, Justice of the Peace for Shropshire (1916), Deputy Lieutenant of Shropshire (1931), Chairman of the Quarter Sessions for Shropshire, Judge of Appeal for the Isle of Man between 1918 and 1921, Vice-President of the War Compensation Court between 1920 and 1928[1] and Treasurer of the Inner Temple in 1926.
[3] For his services to the judiciary he was raised to the peerage as Baron Maenan, of Ellesmere in the County of Shropshire, on 29 June 1948, then aged 93 and the oldest person ever to be made a peer.
In later life he had a country home in Shropshire at Gadlas Hall in Dudleston Heath, which he rented out to Charles de Gaulle's family during their exile in England in the Second World War.
[3] The Francis Taylor Building (built in 1957) in the Inner Temple is named in his honour.