George Taylor, ‘King of the Egg Shows’

I wasn’t aware of George Taylor until Peter Gott mentioned him and showed me an article on him in Cumbria Life. Peter reckoned he lived up the hill and pointed vaguely across his farm to George’s place 600 feet up on the outskirts of the village of Crook, near Kendal, appropriately called High Farm.

So, what’s so interesting about George Taylor? Well, he’s in the Guinness Book of Records for the number of first prizes won in a year. He established his place as a world record holder in 1999 with 536 firsts — I didn’t realize there were that many farm shows. He then got it up to 596, and in his 50-year farming career, he’s had an incredible 7,300 wins.