Major-General Reynell George Taylor CB CSI (25 January 1822 – 28 February 1886) was a British military officer who served in the Bengal Army.

When he heard reports of the murders of Patrick Vans Agnew and W. A. Anderson at Multan on 20 April 1848, he dispatched troops to assist Herbert Edwardes and remained at his post.

In July he was ordered to proceed to Multan, which was at that time under siege, and then set out in an unsuccessful attempt to rescue British captives then being held at Peshawar.

He next gathered an irregular force of 1,021 foot, 650 horse, and three guns, and laid siege to the fort of Lukkee, the key to the Derajat, on 11 December 1848.

After a short visit to England in 1865 he returned for the last time to India, to serve as commissioner of the Ambala district From 1870 he held the same post in the Amritsar division.

[1] She survived him, along with several children, including Millicent Mary, who founded the Society of the Precious Blood, an Anglican religious order, and Henry, who played both first-class cricket and rugby union for Cambridge University.