Background
Taylor was born in Glasgow and attended Bellahouston Academy. His father, John Sharp Taylor, died when he was three years old and was raised with his two siblings by his mother from that time.
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He later stood for the ILP as parliamentary candidate in the Edinburgh Central by-election, 1941. He later joined the Labour Party, then the Social Democratic Party, before returning to Labour in the 1990s. Taylor opposed Scottish devolution.
Although an opponent of the Government"s Railways Bill in 1993, he noted that he had no objection of privatisation as a concept.
On 29 January 1968 he was created a life peer as Baron Taylor of Gryfe, of Bridge of Weir in the County of Renfrew. Taylor served as President of the Company-operative Wholesale Society in Scotland and chaired the United Kingdom Forestry Commission.
From 1971-1980, he was chairman of Scottish Railways and a number of other companies including Morgan Grenfell (Scotland) Limited.
Member: British Railways Board, 1968-1980 (Chairman Scottish Railways Board, 1971-1980). Board of Scottish Television Limited, 1968-1982.
Forestry Commission, 1963-1976 (Chairman, 1970-1976).
President, Scottish Chemical Warfare Service, 1965-1970. Member, Scottish Economic Council, 1971-1974. Chairman, Economic Forestry Group, 1976-1981.
Trustee, Dulverton Trust, since 1980.
Chairman, Scottish Action on Dementia.
Politics
Chairman, All-Party Parliamentary Forestry Group, since 1995.
Membership
As a young man Taylor was a member of the Independent Labour Party and was elected to Glasgow City Council in 1934 as the city"s youngest councillor.
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Political Party
Nazi party