Sir William Taylor, 1st Baronet

For other people named William Taylor, see William Taylor (disambiguation).

Sir William Johnson Taylor, 1st Baronet (23 October 1902 26 July 1972) was a Conservative and National Liberal Party politician in the United Kingdom.

At the 1945 general election he stood unsuccessfully in the Bradford East constituency in West Yorkshire, losing in that year's landslide by a wide margin to the Labour Party candidate Frank McLeavy. After boundary changes, he stood at the 1950 general election in the neighbouring Bradford North, where he unseated the Labour MP Muriel Nichol.

Taylor served under Harold Macmillan as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Supply between 1957 and 1959, when the post was abolished, and as Under-Secretary of State for Air between 1959 and 1962. He held Bradford North until his defeat at 1964 general election by Labour's Ben Ford. He was created a Baronet, of Cawthorne in the West Riding of the County of York, in 1963.[1] He died in July 1972, aged 69, when the baronetcy became extinct.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Muriel Nichol
Member of Parliament for Bradford North
19501964
Succeeded by
Ben Ford
Political offices
Preceded by
Ian Harvey
Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Supply
19571959
Office abolished
Preceded by
Airey Neave
Under-Secretary of State for Air
19591962
Succeeded by
Julian Ridsdale
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
New creation Baronet
(of Cawthorne)
19631972
Extinct


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