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John Taylor Williams, educator, physician, and businessman, was born in the northern part of Cumberland County, the son of free black parents, Peter Williams, a successful lumberman, and Flora Ann McKay. Although his father was illiterate, his mother was not, and when the boy was six she began to teach him to read. In the family moved to Harnett County, where the father hired a white widow to teach his children in return for his working on her farm. Between and John mastered Webster's blue back speller and other books and became an avid reader. By age sixteen he had read widely among volumes of memoirs, history, and biographies.
His parents were active church members—his father was a Presbyterian and his mother a Methodist. John joined the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church at age thirteen and set out on a course that led him to hold every church position open to a layman. He represented his denomination at quarterly, district, and annual conferences regularly for eighteen years and represented the Western North Carolina Conference in the General Conference of , when it met in Pittsburg, Pa.
In he entered the State Normal
John Taylor
Mary and Robert Raymond Professor, George P. Shultz Senior Fellow of Economics at the Hoover Institution and Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research
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John B. Taylor is the Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics at Stanford University and the George P. Shultz Senior Fellow in Economics at the Hoover Institution. He is Director of the Stanford Introductory Economics Center. He formerly served as director of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, where he is now a senior fellow.
Taylor’s academic fields of expertise are macroeconomics, monetary economics, and international economics. He is known for his research on the foundations of modern monetary theory and policy, which has been applied by central banks and financial market analysts around the world. He has an active interest in public policy. He served as senior economist on the President’s Council of Economic Advisers from to , as a member of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers from to He was also a member of the Congressional Budget Office’s Panel of Economic Advisers from to Taylor served as a member of the California Governor’s Counci
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Today’s protagonist was hailed by the Courts of 18th Century Europe as an infallible eye surgeon, able to restore the sight to hundreds of patients thanks to his miraculous cures.
Or so he said.
Many of his contemporary colleagues considered him to be the quintessential ‘quack’ doctor, little more than a conman with a scalpel.
Legendary writer Samuel Johnson, who had the fortune to meet this oculist, described him as “the most ignorant man I ever knew &#; he was an instance of how far impudence will carry ignorance,” and painter William Hogarth included his likeness in the engraving ‘The Undertaker Arms’, a gallery of the most dangerous healers of the time.
Despite these rather grandiose connections, our man’s name is most infamously linked to that of a composer. He was, in fact, the oculist who blinded – and possibly killed – Johann Sebastian Bach.
This is the story of the Chevalier John Taylor, ‘Ophthalmiater Pontifical, Imperial and Royal’.
John Taylor was born in Norwich, England, on August 16, , into a family of medical professionals. His mother was an apothecary, while his father was a respected surgeon.
Medicine ran deep in the Taylo
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John Taylor was born in Manchester (25th September ) and first came to the attention of the jazz audience in when he partnered saxophonists, Alan Skidmore and John Surman. He was later reunited with Surman in the short-lived group Morning Glory and in the s with Miroslav Vitous’s quartet.
In the early s, he was accompanist to the singer Cleo Laine and started to compose for his own sextet. John also worked with many visiting artists at Ronnie Scott’s club and later became a member of Ronnie’s quintet.
In John formed the trio Azimuth, with Norma Winstone and Kenny Wheeler. The group was described by Richard Williams as “…one of the most imaginatively conceived and delicately balanced contemporary chamber-jazz groups’. The trio made several recordings for ECM Records and performed in Europe, the USA, and Canada.
The s saw John working with groups led by Jan Garbarek, Enrico Rava, Gil Evans, Lee Konitz, and Charlie Mariano as well as performing in duo contexts with Tony Coe and Steve Arguelles. Composing projects included a commission for the English choir Cantamus with Lee Konitz and Steve Arguelles and piece
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