Robert Taylor (Conservative politician)
Robert George Taylor (7 December 1932 – 18 June 1981) was a British Conservative politician.
Background[edit]
Taylor was born in 1932, and attended Cranleigh School. He worked in architectural ironmongery, becoming an executive with the G and S Allgood company.[1] He served as a parachutist in the Territorial Army.[1]
In 1964, he married Rosemary Box, and they had two children.[1]
Parliamentary career[edit]
Taylor fought Battersea North in 1959 and 1964, but was defeated each time by Labour's Douglas Jay.[1]
He was Member of Parliament for Croydon North West from 1970 until he died from a heart attack at his home in Surrey on 18 June 1981, aged 48, 11 years to the day after his election to parliament.[2][3] In the subsequent by-election, the Conservatives lost the seat to Liberal Bill Pitt.
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