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Born in 1896; educated at Bedales School, Petersfield and Nottingham High School; studied accounting in London, then worked for a firm of camera and lens makers in Berlin; joined Army Service Corps as a clerk, 1914; 2nd Lt and Lt, 1915; transferred to 2 Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regt); served in France, 1915-1916; killed in action, 1916.

Born in Prahran, Melbourne, Australia, 1903; educated at Xavier College and Melbourne University; worked as a freelance journalist; joined the Shell Company, 1930; moved to London, mid-1930s; employed in Section ‘D’ (for Destruction) of the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS, later known as MI6), Jul 1939; appointed head of SIS Balkan network, 1940; Chief of Staff to Sir Frank Nelson, executive head of Special Operations Executive (SOE), 1940; worked in Yugoslavia, Jan-Apr 1941; captured by Italian forces after the German invasion of Yugoslavia, Apr 1941, and held prisoner for two months before being repatriated; Director of overseas groups and missions, SOE, Mar 1942; granted honorary rank of colonel, 1943; Chief of Staff to Sir Charles Hambro, Head of SOE, 1943; Director of Far East SOE, 1943-1945; Director of the Bank of London & South America Ltd, 1950; Chairman, Bank of London & South America Ltd, 1970; returned to Australia, mid 1970s; died, 1979.

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 .

Thomas Guy and Lewisham School of Nursing was formed in 1985, by the merger of Guy's Hospital School of Nursing with Lewisham School of Nursing. In 1991, this school merged with the Nightingale School of Nursing (St Thomas's Hospital) to form the Nightingale and Guy's College of Nursing and Midwifery.