1958, he was created a life peer by letters patent as Baron Taylor, of Harlow in the County of Essex on Gaitskell's recommendation. In 1962, he mediated the end to the Saskatchewan doctors' strike in Saskatchewan, Canada. From 1964 he served the Labour government as Under-Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations and Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies. Lord Taylor objected to Labour's efforts to "abolish private medical practice, to prevent part-time medical work within the NHS and to abolish education...by destroying freedom of choice." He resigned from Labour Party in 1981 to sit with the Social Democratic Party. Lord Taylor was also President and Vice-Chancellor of Memorial University of Newfoundland from 1967 to 1973. After he retired from this position he became visiting professor of community medicine at Memorial University of Newfoundland. Personal life Taylor married Charity Clifford, a medical doctor and later Governor of Holloway Prison, in 1939. He died in Wrexham aged 77. Books 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) References External links 1910 births 1988 deaths Fellows of the Royal College of General Practitioners Labour Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Labour Party (UK) life peers UK MPs 1945–1950 UK MPs who were granted peerages Memorial University of Newfoundland alumni Social Democratic Party (UK) life peers British general practitioners Canadian university and college chief executives Ministers in the Wilson governments, 1964–1970 Life peers created by Elizabeth II People educated at Stowe School