Stephen Taylor, Baron Taylor

The Right Honourable The Lord Taylor
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Personal details
Born	Stephen James Lake Taylor (1910-12-30)30 December 1910 High Wycombe Buckinghamshire, England
Died	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 High Wycombe, from 1940 to 1944 he was Director of Home intelligence and the 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 1951 he was invited by the Nuffield Provincial Hospitals trust to carry out a survey of general practice. He went on to make a significant contribution to the development of general practice, holding a number of positions on medical boards and other organisations.

In August 1958, he was created a life peer as Baron Taylor, of Harlow in the County of Essex. 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 with the Social Democratic Party.

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. After he retired from this position he became visiting professor of community medicine at Memorial University of Newfoundland in Canada.

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.

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)

External links

• Birth date & MP history

Parliament of the United Kingdom
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
Academic offices
Preceded by Moses Morgan (pro tempore)	President of Memorial University of Newfoundland 1967–1973	Succeeded by Moses Morgan
Honorary titles
Preceded by The Lord Granville-West	Senior life peer 1984–1988	Succeeded by The Baroness Wootton of Abinger