sentences:  He graduated with a second class degree in the Honour School of Jurisprudence and was subsequently called to the Bar at the Middle Temple on 14 January 1941.He returned to Nigeria in December 1941 and joined his father's law firm, which he later headed upon his father's death in 1947.Taylor had a swift rise through the Nigerian legal ranks, culminating in appointment as a Judge of the High Court, Western Nigeria, at the age of 39.