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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 .

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 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.

Charles Taylor studied medicine at Guy's Hospital, London, 1834-1837.