John Taylor, Baron Taylor of Warwick

John Taylor, Baron Taylor of Warwick (2017)

John David Beckett Taylor, Baron Taylor of Warwick (born September 21, 1952 in Birmingham ) is a British lawyer and politician of the Conservative Party who became the first black member of the House of Lords for the Conservative Tories in 1996 . In January 2011 he was during proceedings before the Crown Court of the London Borough of Southwark found guilty of having made his parliamentary expenses false information concerning, and on 31 May 2011 on a prison sentence convicted of twelve months, but after three months of detention of released from prison and placed under house arrest. He was suspended from membership in the House of Lords while he was sentenced.

Life

Studied lawyer and local politician

Taylor, son of Jamaican immigrants , began studying English literature at Keele University after attending the Moseley School . He then studied law at the Law School of the Moseley School and graduated in 1976 with a Bachelor of Arts . In 1978 he won the lawyer price of the Bar Association of Gray's Inn and then received the lawyer's admission as a barrister .

In the mid- 1980s he began his political career in local politics , when he was elected to the Council of the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull for the Conservative Party and was a member until 1991. At the same time he was a member of the Regional Health Authority for the West Thames and, most recently, between 1990 and 1991, he was also a special advisor to the Minister of the Interior and the Minister of State.

In the general election of April 9, 1992 Taylor ran unsuccessfully for the Conservative Party for a seat in the House of Commons in the constituency of Cheltenham . He was then a member of the Greater London Funding Council for Higher Education between 1992 and 1993 and a member of the Independent Football Commission (IFC) from 1992 to 1995 .

Member of the House of Lords

In 1996 Taylor, who also worked as a presenter on television, was raised to the British nobility as a life peer with the title Baron Taylor of Warwick , of Warwick in the County of Warwickshire, and has since been a member of the House of Lords .

He achieved wide fame as the author of the Criminal Evidence Amendment Act 1997 and between 1998 and 2000 as Vice President of the British Board of Film Classification . In 1999 the University of Warwick awarded him an honorary doctorate in law.

Baron Taylor, who was a member of the bipartisan information committee in 2007, resigned in July 2010 as whip of the Tories faction in the House of Lords and resigned from the association of conservative peers. In January 2011 he was found guilty of misrepresentation regarding his parliamentary expenses during a trial in the Crown Court of the London Borough of Southwark and sentenced on May 31, 2011 to twelve months' imprisonment after three months in prison released from prison and placed under house arrest. At the trial, it was found that during the Parliamentary Expenses Scandal he had claimed £ 11,277.80 on an apartment he allegedly lived in Oxford, when that apartment was actually occupied by his nephew and his friend. During his sentencing, he was suspended from membership in the House of Lords from May 2011 to June 2012. In 2012, Baron Taylor lost his legal license after being found unworthy to be a barrister.

Web links

• British Parliament information
• Entry in They Work For You (accessed June 29, 2012)