Other formats

    TEI XML file   ePub eBook file  

Connect

    mail icontwitter iconBlogspot iconrss icon

The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Auckland Provincial District]

Mr. Archdale Tayler

Mr. Archdale Tayler, Accountant, was born on the 11th of May, 1855, at Weybridge, Surrey, England. He is the eldest son of the Rev. Archdale Wilson Tayler, M.A., of Trinity College, Dublin, and was educated at the Leeds Grammar school, Yorkshire. On leaving school, at the age of eighteen, he entered the employment of Robinson Clay and Co., cloth manufacturers and merchants, of Leeds. He landed at Wellington in August, 1880, by the ship “St. Leonard's,” and in March, 1883, removed to Auckland, where he entered the employment of William McArthur and Co., with whom he remained eleven years, till they gave up business in 1894. Mr. Tayler was for three years accountant at Cook and Gray's, and is at present accountant for the Captain Cook Brewery, Ltd. He is a Fellow of the Incorporated Institute of Accountants of New Zealand, and sometime local secretary for Auckland, and also sometime secretary of the Warehousemen's Association, and Insurers' Protection Association. Mr. Tayler was for many years a member and soloist of the Auckland Choral Society. He was one of the original founders of the Auckland Amateur Opera Club, in 1885, and played John Wellington Wells in the “Sorcerer,” Gaspard in “Les Cloches,” the Lord Chancellor in” Marquis de Pontsable in “Madame Favart,” Koko in the “Mikado,” the Duke of Plazatoro in the “Gondoliers,” and Sherwood in “Dorothy”; and has also acted as stage manager for the club during the last eight or nine years. He is well known on the concert platform. It has often been said that he mistook his vocation in life, and there is little doubt that, had he adopted the stage as a profession, he would have distinguished himself. In July, 1887, he married Lilias, eldest daughter of Mr James Gartside Culpan, and grand-daughter of Mr William Culpan, one of the pioneer settlers who arrived in Auckland by the ship “Jane Gifford,” in 1842.

Hanna, photo.Mr. A. Tayler.

Hanna, photo.Mr. A. Tayler.