John Taylor, Baron Ingrow

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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 and educated at Shrewsbury School, he served in World War II with the Duke of Wellington's Regiment and later the Royal Signals, doing decoding work in Norway, the Middle East, North Africa, Italy, Northwest Europe and Burma. He was awarded the Territorial Decoration in 1951. For 40 years he was chairman and managing director of Timothy Taylor & Co, the family brewery in Keighley, West Yorkshire. He served on Keighley Town Council for 21 years from 1946 and was mayor in 1956. He was active in the Conservative Party, sitting on the executive committee of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations from 1964 to 1983 and as its chairman from 1971 to 1976. He was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1960, knighted in 1972, and created a life peer as Baron Ingrow of Keighley in the County of West Yorkshire on 31 January 1983. From 1985 to 1992 he was Lord Lieutenant of West Yorkshire, after serving as a Deputy Lieutenant. He was married to Barbara Stirk from 1949 until her death in 1997; they had two daughters.