| Biography | Stephen James Lake Taylor, Baron Taylor (SJL Taylor) (30 December 1910 1 February 1988) was a British physician, civil servant, politician and educator.
Born in High Wycombe, from 1940 to 1944 he was Director of Home Intelligence and Wartime Social Survey in the Ministry of Information, and Labour Member of Parliament for Barnet from 1945 to 1950. He was Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Deputy Prime Minister and Lord President of the Council from 1947 until 1950. He was a policy advisor on the National Health Service.
In August 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 from 1964 to 1966. He resigned from Labour Party in 1981 to sit with the Social Democratic Party. Lord Taylor was also Medical Director of Harlow Industrial Health Service, and President and Vice-Chancellor of Memorial University of Newfoundland from 1967 to 1973. In 1962, he mediated the end to the Saskatchewan Doctors' Strike in Saskatchewan, Canada. He died in Wrexham aged 77. |