Taylor, Norman A. C. (Norman Alexander Campbell), 1935-

Norman Taylor was born in England in 1834 and emigrated to Victoria in 1854 to take up an appointment at the Assay Office, Melbourne. He was a field geologist under A.R.C. Selwyn, the Government Geologist, until the Geological Survey Department was disbanded in 1868. He then worked in NSW and Qld, both in the public service and as a private consultant. Returning to Victoria, he worked at the Technological Museum and Laboratory, Melbourne, under J.C. Newbery. He re-entered the Victorian public service in the early 1870s as geological surveyor under R. Brough Smyth, Secretary of Mines, and continued in the Mining Department until about 1893. He was married with seven children and died in June 1894.