Christopher John Taylor, who died 30 July, 2025, aged 90, was a grandson maternally of the 25th Baron de Clifford.
He was born 11 November, 1934, son of Mervyn (Jeremy) Hesseltine Taylor, and his wife the Hon Diana Katharine Russell (1909-1978), and was a grandson of the 25th Baron de Clifford (1884-1909), holder of a peerage created in 1299. He was a nephew of the 26th Baron de Clifford (1907-1982), who, in 1935 became the last man in England to be tried by his peers in the House of Lords. He was acquitted of manslaughter, but the accident haunted him and it was said he never again spoke in the House of Lords.
Taylor’s father Mervyn (known as Jeremy) had doubled for Peter O’Toole on camel and horseback in Lawrence of Arabia (1962). Through him, Taylor found film work, riding in doublet and hose behind Richard Burton in Anne of the Thousand Days (1969), in which Elizabeth Taylor insisted on being given a walk-on role to keep an eye on her philandering husband. Ever courteous, with a cigarette perennially between his lips (even after a bout of pneumonia), the handsome Taylor glided through acting circles with the same easy charm he brought to racing. In the late 1960s he moved to new stables in Bourton-on-the-Hill at East Cottage, family home of his second wife, Jane “Jannie” Brown.
He married firstly in 1959 (div. 1971), Sarah Mary Mews, daughter of Ewan Mews, and married 2ndly, 1972, Jane Seymour Brown (who died as the result of a riding accident, 20 March, 1995), daughter of George Macdonald Brown; and married 3rdly, in 2009, Sally _______. He leaves issue from his first marriage, a son, Vernon Edmund Christopher (born 24 June, 1965), and a daughter, Claire Virginia Mary (born 16 July, 1962).
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