Stephen Taylor, Baron Taylor

Stephen James Lake Taylor, Baron Taylor (SJL Taylor) (30 December 1910 – 1 February 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 the National Health Service.

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 1964-66. 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).

In 1962, he mediated the end to the Saskatchewan Doctors' Strike in Saskatchewan, Canada.

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

* [http://www.fis.utoronto.ca/hilscan/directory/taylor_sjl.htm Brief biography]
* [http://www.mun.ca/marcomm/gazette/1997-98/Feb.19/m-gazfla.htm Detail of retirement from university and death]
* [http://www.angeltowns.com/town/peerage/peerst1.htm Birth date & MP history]

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