Matt Taylor loses a second “King Arthur” expert to death by James Hind

The Satan Hunter Matthew Taylor of Brighton was hit by bad news recently that a second King Arthur expert that he worships as a supporter of his alternative narrative for King Arthur has died. Alan Wilson was in declining health forced into a care home, and subject to a campaign by Taylor to kidnap him (rescue) claiming a conspiracy that the nursing home was holding him against his will. The death of Wilson follows around a year after another Taylor “King Arthur” expert also died, Ross Broadstock died in 2022. This leaves one final expert called  Baram Blackett, who himself is struggling with money and poor health.

The three experts on King Arthur are the pillars of the narrative that Matthew Taylor promotes that a King Arthur existed who united all Britain; sailed to USA with 700 ships when Britain was destroyed by asteroids; was scalped to death by a red indian; and that Jesus is buried in South Wales. Taylor wants to add his own personal twist by arguing a connection of King Arthur to Brighton to justify for his business proposals for a film studios, a theme park, a King Arthur film and a Brighton based King Arthur political party.

Taylor actually claims there were two King Arthurs, both who seem to have lived outside of the time frame of my version of a King Arthur. The first King Arthur was claimed to have existed in the 380’s in the time of Magnus Maximus, an historical Roman emperor. Taylor places his second King Arthur in the 570’s when the glory days of British struggle against the Saxon was already lost: Brittany was dominated by the Franks; Northumbria was about to dominate the North with the death of Urien, Owein his son and the great defeat of the British at the Battle of Catterick in 600. The extraordinary claims of the second King Arthur by Taylor and his “experts” is completely out of harmony with the events, evidence, texts and archaeology of times it is set in.

The last surviving King Arthur expert that Taylor supports is Baram Blackett, real name Brian Andrew Terry, who was convicted and jailed in the 1990’s for handling stolen paintings. Blackett and Wilson are conspiracy theorists who enjoyed writing alternative histories for Britain, together with inventions such as the claim of Arthur in the USA and Jesus burial in South Wales. Unsurprisingly the discredited experts found a great fan in Matthew Taylor, who promoted their ideas along with his own King Arthur fantasies.

With all his favoured King Arthur experts dropping dead, it spells an ill omen for Matthew Taylor, who has worries over his own declining mental and physical health. Many in the family of Taylor suffer serious mental and physical health problems, with his mother ending confined to a wheel chair with a stroke in her 50’s; she later allegedly committed suicide, though Taylor joked he had murdered his mother. Taylor worries he may also die in his 50’s; he is aged 52. Taylor may not face his own Camlann like King Arthur, it may just be ignominious such as by heart attack and stroke.