Robert John Taylor (1881 – 19 July 1954) was a British Labour Party politician. Born in

Blyth, Northumberland Blyth () is a town and civil parish in southeast Northumberland, England. It lies on the coast, to the south of the River Blyth and is approximately northeast of Newcastle upon Tyne. It has a population of about 37,000, as of 2011. The port o ...

, Taylor became a coal miner and then a checkweighman. He became active in the Labour Party, serving on Blyth Council from 1935 until 1938, and also on Northumberland County Council. He was elected at the 1935 general election as

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(MP) for the

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constituency in

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, and held the seat until his death in 1954, aged 73. In Clement Attlee's post-war Labour Government, he was a

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from 1945 to 1951, serving as

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from 1946.''Junior Government Appointments.''

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, 1 April 1946. After Labour's defeat at the 1951 general election, he was appointed in 1952 as a

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Taylor, Robert J 1881 births 1954 deaths Councillors in Northumberland Labour Party (UK) councillors Labour Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom Miners' Federation of Great Britain-sponsored MPs National Union of Mineworkers-sponsored MPs People from Blyth, Northumberland UK MPs 1935–1945 UK MPs 1945–1950 UK MPs 1950–1951 UK MPs 1951–1955 Ministers in the Attlee governments, 1945–1951