John Taylor, Baron Ingrow

John Aked Taylor, Baron Ingrow OBE TD DL (15 August 1917 – 7 February 2002) was a British soldier, brewer and Conservative politician.

Born to Percy and Gladys Taylor, he was educated at Shrewsbury School.

During World War II Taylor served in the Duke of Wellington's Regiment and subsequently with the Royal Signals with whom he carried out decoding work in Norway, the Middle East, north Africa, Italy, north-west Europe, and Burma and was decorated with the Territorial Decoration (TD) in 1951.

[1] Taylor was a member of Keighley Town Council for 21 years from 1946, serving as mayor in 1956.

[3] He was knighted in 1972[4] and created a life peer as Baron Ingrow, of Keighley in the County of West Yorkshire on 31 January 1983.