George Langley-Taylor [also knwn as George Langley Taylor and as G. Langley-Taylor] was born George Langley Taylor in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England on 26 July 1888. In the 1911 England and Wales Census his occupation was given as timekeeper, building trade. By 1913 he had moved to Harrow in Middlesex and his occupation was given as estate agent and auctioneer. By the early 1920s he had moved to Beaconsfield Buckinghamshire where he was working as a land agent and surveyor. By the early 1930s his occupation was firmly established as an architect. By then was Chairman of the Buckinghamshire Society of Architects. He was also a Fellow of the Surveyors' Institution (FSI) and a Member of the Town Planning Institute (MTPI). In 1932 he was also elected a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (FRIBA).
By 1939 he had changed his name to George Langley-Taylor and was senior partner in the practice G. Langley-Taylor & Partners with offices in Beaconsfield and at 23 Berkley Square, London. The practice was still active in the mid-1950s.
By the early 1960s he was Chairman of the Council for the Preservation of Rural England and in 1964 was knighted for his services to architecture, town planning and conservation.
His address was given as Hughenden Manor, Hughenden, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire in 1939 and 38 Albert Hall Mansions, London in 1960. He died at Kingston Hospital, Kingston on Thames, Surrey on 6 November 1968
‘Obituary: Sir George Langley Taylor’. Forestry: An International Journal of Forest Research, volume 42, issue 2, 1969, pp. 207–208,