John William Taylor

From here he took orders for all over the country and cast the peal of six bells for St Nectan's Church in nearby Hartland, Devon.

John William Taylor became a bellringer, for a board dated 1847 in the belfry of Loughborough parish church records that in that year there was rung a peal of Grandsire Triples during which John W. Taylor rang the third bell.

On the death of his brother Pryce aged just 27 in 1862 he assumed sole control of the company; at this time he began to consider a problem that was to occupy his thought for the next 30 years - namely, why it was that bells sounded out of tune.

E. B. Denison, "I have almost a dread of attempting to harmonize bells up to A ... but I flatter myself at being able to reach G satisfactorily."

[1] In 1881 under his management John Taylor & Co cast Great Paul, which hangs in the south-west tower of St Paul's Cathedral and which, at 16+1⁄2 long tons (16,800 kg) was the largest bell in the British Isles until the casting of the Olympic Bell for the 2012 London Olympics.