Sir William Ling Taylor, CBE (29 May 1882 – 5 January 1969) was a British civil servant and forester.
Born on 29 May 1882,[1] Taylor was educated at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, receiving a diploma in forestry.
[2] Taylor entered the Forestry Commission in 1919 and served as the assistant commissioner for England and Wales from 1932 to 1938, when he was appointed a forestry commissioner.
[5] He had also been in the Home Timber Production Department of the wartime Ministry of Supply from 1939 to 1941.
[5] Taylor, who had been president of the Society of Foresters of Great Britain from 1936 to 1938,[2] was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1945 New Year Honours,[7] and was knighted in the 1949 New Year Honours.