LC ("Kim") Taylor - Telegraph After demob, Taylor spent a further year at St Paul's before working his passage back to England and going up to New College, Oxford. He won a Blue as a heavyweight boxer and took a First in History, then spent a year at the University of Chicago studying Psychology. It was in America that he met his future wife, Suzanne Dufault, whose lively personality and striking looks would contribute to his success as a headmaster. Taylor began his career in education as head of history at Repton before being invited by his former headmaster to succeed him at Sevenoaks - he was then the youngest head of a public school in England. After 14 years at Sevenoaks, Taylor left to become director of the Nuffield Foundation's Resources for Learning project. This work generated Resources for Learning (1971), published by Penguin, a book whose utilitarian title belies an elegantly written survey of education both at home and abroad. Taylor then went to Paris as Principal Administrator of the Centre for Educational Resources and Innovation at the OECD; he took a particular interest in Portugal, and in 1989 the Portuguese appointed him a Commander of the Order of Prince Henry the Navigator. After five years at the Independent Broadcasting Authority as head of educational programming, he ended his career as Director of the Gulbenkian Foundation in London, an Anglo-Portuguese charity dedicated to social welfare, education and the arts. He also edited a series of books connected with Portugal, including a collection of the poems of Fernando Pessoa. Taylor maintained his connection with Sevenoaks, becoming a governor in 1983. It was during his governorship that the school replaced A-levels with the International Baccalaureate, an exam which he admired for its breadth, inclusion of community service, high standards and freedom from political interference . In retirement, Taylor cared devotedly for his wife during a long illness, and after her death he moved to Chichester, where he welcomed visitors to the cathedral as a magisterially-robed doorkeeper, maintained a wide correspondence in his firm, fair script and spent many hours reading (pencil in hand to take notes) in the armchair by the front window of his house. He is survived by a son and two daughters. LC ("Kim") Taylor, born August 4 1922, died July 20 2013