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 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 1964-66. 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).

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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)

Parliament of the United Kingdom
New constituency	Member of Parliament for Barnet 1945 – 1950	Succeeded by Reginald Maudling
Political offices
Preceded by Richard Hornby Nigel Fisher	Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies with Eirene White 1964 – 1965 Lord Beswick 1965 – 1966 1964 – 1966	Succeeded by Lord Beswick