Tributes have been paid to a sportsman and teacher following his death at the age of 91.
Ken Taylor, a former England and Yorkshire all-rounder, footballer for Huddersfield Town, and art teacher at Gresham's School, died on September 27 after battling illness.
Richard Jefferson, former captain of Norfolk Cricket, has paid tribute to Taylor, whom he played against during his career.
"I have always admired Ken for his outstanding sporting career in cricket and football, and for his work as a sporting artist," he said.
"He had such talent.
"I admired his north country Yorkshire 'grit', something us southerners don’t find easy to understand.
"I saw him closely as a teacher and sports coach.
"He was at his best working with talented young people."
Mr Taylor served as head of art at Gresham’s School in Holt for more than 15 years from the early 1970s and also led the school’s cricket team for several seasons.
In 1972, he scored 831 runs for Norfolk in the Minor Counties Championship, earning the Wilfred Rhodes Trophy for the highest aggregate of runs that season.
After leaving Gresham’s, he continued to work part-time at Beeston Hall School, where his wife Avril was head of art.
He supported art scholars and coached the cricket team during the summer term, while still producing and selling paintings of cricketers, other sporting figures and Norfolk buildings.
Mr Jefferson, who played for Surrey against Ken on two or three occasions in the early 1960s. said: "Whether teaching art in the classroom, or coaching cricket and football, Ken was at his best with talented young people in front of him."
He also described him as a "very proud Yorkshireman."
Taylor is survived by Avril and his two children, Nick and Cameron.
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