Robert Taylor (Scottish councillor)

Robert Taylor (Scottish councillor)

Councillor Robert Taylor represented Dalmellington from 1993 till 2002. He went on to become a senior member of East Ayrshire Council as Chairman of Community Services, Chairman of Cumnock and Doon Valley Minerals Trust and a member of Strathclyde Police Board. He was also Chairman of the Civic Licencing Board and Chairman of The Galleon Leisure Centre in Kilmarnock and was involved at national level through The Scottish Environmental Protection Agency (S.E.P.A.)

He was first elected in a by-election in October 1993. Re-elected in May 1995, and then re-elected again in May 1999, but retired through ill health in February 2002.

Councillor Taylor was an Executive member of Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley Labour Party. He was also Chairman of Cumnock and Doon Valley District Labour Party and Area Secretary of The Co-operative Party.

He was born in Dalmellington in March 1952, where he still lives today with his wife Elizabeth.

Dalmellington is an ex-mining village in Ayrshire in South West Scotland. It sits on the banks of the "River Doon" on the A713 between Ayr and Castle Douglas which is known as "The Galloway Tourist Route".


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