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Born 30 December 1910, the son of John Reginald Taylor and Beatrice Violet Lake Taylor; educated at Stowe School; St Thomas's Hospital Medical School, University of London. BSc 1st class Hons; MB, BS (Hons Hygiene and Forensic Medicine); MD, FRCP 1960; FFOM RCP, 1979. Taylor served World War Two as Surgeon-Major, Major, Lieutenant-Commander (Neuro-psychiatric Specialist), RNVR; Director of Home Intelligence and Wartime Social Survey, Ministry of Information, 1941-1945. MP (Labour) Barnet Division of Hertfordshire, 1945-1950; Parliamentary Private Secretary to Deputy Prime Minister and Lord President of Council, 1947-1950; In 1958, he was created Baron Taylor of Harlow, one of the first group of life peers.
Under-Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations and Colonies, 1964-65; resigned from Labour Party, 1981, to sit as a cross-bencher. Consultant in Occupational Health, Richard Costain Ltd, 1951-1964 and 1966-1967; Medical Director Harlow Industrial Health Service, 1955-1964 and 1965-1967; President and Vice-Chancellor, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1967-1973. Visiting Research Fellow, Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust, 1953-1955; member Harlow New Town Development Corporation, 1950-1964 and 1966-1967. He was also a Former Chairman, Labour Party Study Group on Higher Education; Vice-Chairman, British Film Institute; former Member: N-W Metropolitan Regional Hospitals Board; Health Advisory Committee of Labour Party; Cohen Committee on General Practice, Beveridge Committee on BBC; Member of the Board of Governors, University College Hospital, London. Awarded MD, BSc, FRCP; FRCGP. Taylor married Dr May Doris Charity Clifford in 1939. He died 1 February 1988.
Publications include: Scurvy and Carditis, 1937; The Suburban Neurosis, 1938; Mental Illness as a Clue to Normality, 1940; The Psychopathic Tenth, 1941; The Study of Public Opinion, 1943; Battle for Health, Nicholson & Watson: London, 1944; The Psychopath in our Midst, 1949; Shadows in the Sun, 1949; Good General Practice, Oxford University Press: London, 1954; The Health Centres of Harlow, 1955; The Survey of Sickness, 1958; First Aid in the Factory, London. Pitman. 1960; Mental Health and Environment, 1964; and articles in Lancet, British Medical Journal, World Medicine.