Stephen Taylor, Baron Taylor
Stephen James Lake Taylor, Baron Taylor ( SJL Taylor ) (born December 30, 1910 in High Wycombe , † February 1, 1988 in Wrexham ) was a British doctor , ministerial official and politician .
Life
From 1940 to 1944 he was director of the Home Intelligence and Wartime Social Survey at the Ministry of Information and 1945-1950 for the Labor Party Member of Parliament for Barnet . He was Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Deputy Prime Minister and Lord President of the Council from 1947 to 1950 . He was a consultant for the National Health Service .
In August 1958 he was named Baron Taylor, of Harlow in the County of Essex as a Life Peer . He served in the government from 1964 to 1966 as Under-Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations and Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies . He resigned from the Labor Party in 1981 and became a crossbencher .
Lord Taylor was also the Medical Director of Harlow Industrial Health Service and President and Vice Chancellor of Memorial University of Newfoundland from 1967 to 1973 . In 1962 he was a mediator in the final stages of the Saskatchewan Doctors' Strike in Saskatchewan , Canada .
Taylor married Charity Clifford in 1939 , a PhD and later governor of Holloway Prison .
Fonts
- 1944: Battle for Health. A Primer of Social Medicine
- 1949: Shadows in the Sun. The Story of the Fight Against Tropical Diseases (with Phyllis Gadsden )
- 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 )
- 1988: A Natural History of Everyday Life. A Biographical Guide for Would-be Doctors of Society
Web links
- Brief biography ( Memento from March 14, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
- Detail of retirement from university and death
- Birth date & MP history
Individual evidence
- ↑ London Gazette, Issue 41467, Page 4930, August 8, 1958. Accessed May 29, 2009.
- ^ Daniel Yates: Obituary: Lady Taylor . In: The Independent . January 7, 1998. Retrieved June 17, 2011.
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| SURNAME | Taylor, Stephen, Baron Taylor |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Taylor, Stephen James Lake, Baron Taylor; Taylor, SJL |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British Doctor, Secretary, Politician and Life Peer in the House of Lords for the Labor Party |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 30, 1910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | High Wycombe |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 1, 1988 |
| Place of death | Wrexham |