IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0100 TH/PP64
Held at: King's College London College Archives
Title: TAYLOR, Stephen James Lake (1910-1988)
Date(s): [1925-1935]
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 volume
Name of creator(s): Taylor | Stephen James Lake | 1910-1988 | Baron Taylor | MP, Physician
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
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.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of Stephen James Lake Taylor, Baron Taylor of Harlow, [1925-1935]comprising an anatomy notebook containing printed text pasted into the volume, annotated and accompanied by hand drawn illustrations (undated).
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
1 volume
Conditions governing access:
Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archive and Corporate Record Services.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
Detailed catalogue
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Accruals:
Archival history:
Acquired by St Thomas's Hospital Medical School Library.
Immediate source of acquisition:
Transferred from St Thomas' Hospital Medical School Library in 2002
ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material:
Taylor's correspondence with GP Wells 1976-1979, (Ref: Hogben), held at the Birmingham University Information Services, Special Collections Department.
Publication note:
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Sources: Who's Who 1897-1996 CD-ROM (A & C Black); St Thomas's Hospital Gazette, Vol 86, No 1, 1988; British Library Public On-line Catalogue. Compiled by Alison Field.
Date(s) of descriptions: January 2004