Edward Bickmore Ellison Taylor OBE (1 June 1906 – 5 May 1982), also known as E. B. E. Taylor, was a New Zealand lawyer, politician and diplomat. He was New Zealand Ambassador to Japan from 1961 to 1965. He was born in Christchurch, the son of Liberal and prohibitionist mayor and MP Tommy Taylor and his wife, social reformer Elizabeth Taylor. He was educated at Christchurch Boys' High School and Canterbury College, graduating in law (LLB). He married twice; in 1934 in London to Hilda Esther Bower, and in 1939 to Gertrude Mary Duthie after his first wife died.