Claude Harold Taylor, younger brother of Lionel Edward Taylor*, arrived in southern Africa in 1902 and resided at least part of the time during 1902-1907 at Sebakwe, in the Midlands Province of Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). However, he also took photographs in the Transvaal during 1902-1911. He became a member of the South African Ornithologists' Union in 1905, a year after its formation, and contributed a paper to its Journal (1907, Vol. 3(1), pp. 12-41) entitled "Notes on a collection of birds made in the Amsterdam district upon the Transvaal-Swaziland border between the months of June and October, 1906". He was assisted in his collecting by J.A.S. Bucknill*. Taylor was still a member of the Union by 1909, when his address was given as Grassridge, P.O. Bankop [Bankkop], Ermelo. The farm Grassridge is roughly midway between Ermelo and Amsterdam. He left South Africa through Cape Town on 1 January 1912, on the Kinfauns Castle.
Taylor and his wife Daphne had a son and a daughter.
Taylor, or someone with the same initials, imported merino sheep from Australia during 1907-1910, at which time his address was given as Amersfoort (between Ermelo and Volksrust). He may also be the same person as C.H. Taylor who wrote "Notes on Aberdeen-Angus cattle" in the Transvaal Agricultural Journal (October 1910, Vol. 9, p. 22).
