Robert Taylor (Conservative politician)
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates {{#invoke:Other people|otherPeople}} Template:Use British English Robert George Taylor (7 December 1932 – 18 June 1981) was a British Conservative politician.
Background
Taylor was born in 1932, and attended Cranleigh School. He worked in architectural ironmongery, becoming an executive with the G and S Allgood company.<ref name = Obit>Template:Cite news</ref> He served as a parachutist in the Territorial Army.<ref name = Obit/>
In 1964, he married Rosemary Box, and they had two children.<ref name = Obit/>
Parliamentary career
Taylor fought Battersea North in 1959 and 1964, but was defeated each time by Labour's Douglas Jay.<ref name = Obit/>
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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In the subsequent by-election, the Conservatives lost the seat to Liberal Bill Pitt.
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- 1932 births
- 1981 deaths
- 20th-century English businesspeople
- British Parachute Regiment soldiers
- Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
- Ironmongers
- 20th-century British Army personnel
- People educated at Cranleigh School
- Politics of the London Borough of Croydon
- UK MPs 1970–1974
- UK MPs 1974
- UK MPs 1974–1979
- UK MPs 1979–1983