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Revision as of 09:04, 6 November 2006 by BrownHairedGirl (talk | contribs) (categs (MPs by Parliament), other minor)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Stephen James Lake Taylor, Baron Taylor (SJL Taylor) (December 30, 1910 – February 1, 1988), was a British physician, civil servant, politician and educator.
From 1940 to 1944 he was Director of Home Intelligence and Wartime Social Survey in the Ministry of Information, and a Labour M.P. for Barnet from 1945 to 1950. He was Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Deputy Prime Minister and Lord President of Council from 1947 until 1950. He was a policy advisor on NHS.
In 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 in 1964-65. 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 (1967-August 1972).
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)
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| Preceded by(new constituency) | Member of Parliament for Barnet 1945–1950 |
Succeeded byReginald Maudling |
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