Stephen Taylor, Baron Taylor
| The Right Honourable The Lord Taylor |
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| Personal details | |
| Born | Stephen James Lake Taylor 30 December 1910 Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England |
| Died | 1 February 1988 (aged 77) Wrexham, Wales |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Labour |
| Occupation | Politician |
Stephen James Lake Taylor, Baron Taylor (SJL Taylor) (30 December 1910 – 1 February 1988) was a British physician, civil servant, politician and educator.
Born in Wycombe, from 1940 to 1944 he was Director of Home Intelligence and Wartime Social Survey in the Ministry of Information, and Labour Member of Parliament for Barnet from 1945 to 1950. He was Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Deputy Prime Minister and Lord President of the Council from 1947 until 1950. He was a policy advisor on the National Health Service.
In August 1958, he was created a life peer as Baron Taylor, of Harlow in the County of Essex.[1] He served in government as Under-Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations and Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies from 1964 to 1966. He resigned from Labour Party in 1981 to sit as a cross-bencher.
Lord Taylor was also Medical Director of Harlow Industrial Health Service, and President and Vice-Chancellor of Memorial University of Newfoundland from 1967 to 1973.
In 1962, he mediated the end to the Saskatchewan Doctors' Strike in Saskatchewan, Canada. He died in Wrexham aged 77.
Taylor married Charity Clifford, a medical doctor and later Governor of Holloway Prison, in 1939.[2]
[edit] Books
- 1949 Shadows in the Sun: the Story of the Fight Against Tropical Diseases (with Phyllis Gadsden)
- A Natural History of Everyday Life
- 1961 First Aid in the Factory and on the Building Site and Farm, in the Shop, Office and Warehouse
- 1964 Mental Health and Environment (with Sidney Chave)
[edit] References
- ^ London Gazette: no. 41467. p. 4930. 8 August 1958. Retrieved 2009-05-29.
- ^ Daniel Yates (7 January 1998). "Obituary: Lady Taylor". The Independent. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-lady-taylor-1137243.html. Retrieved 17 June 2011.
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| Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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| New constituency | Member of Parliament for Barnet 1945–1950 |
Succeeded by Reginald Maudling |
| Political offices | ||
| Preceded by Richard Hornby Nigel Fisher |
Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies 1964–1966 With: Eirene White (1964–1965) The Lord Beswick (1965–1966) |
Succeeded by The Lord Beswick |
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| Preceded by Moses Morgan (pro tempore) |
President of Memorial University of Newfoundland 1967–1973 |
Succeeded by Moses Morgan |
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