Guest Speaker: Rick Pyves
Topic: Sir John James Taylor, Assistant Under-Secretary for Ireland, who was the de facto ruler of Ireland from 1918 to early 1920.
Rick will present the story of his maternal, great-grandmother’s brother, Sir John James Taylor, Assistant Under-Secretary for Ireland, who was the de facto ruler of Ireland from 1918 to early 1920. It is the story of a commoner, born in Umballa, India who joins the British Civil Service as a teenager in 1879 and rises through the civil service ranks while in Ireland to a position of influence during the Anglo-Irish War of Independence.
Rick Pyves is a published author, avid historian and genealogist who grew up in Montreal, Quebec. Rick is a graduate of Concordia (Sir George Williams) University and McGill University and holds a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Business Administration in Marketing.
