Robert John Taylor (1881 – 19 July 1954) was a British Labour Party politician. Born in Blyth, Northumberland, Taylor became a coal miner and then a

checkweighman {{Short description, Occupation within mining, especially coal A checkweighman (occasionally checkmeasurer or checkweigher) is a person who is responsible for weighing coal or another mined substance, and thereby determining the payment due to each ...

. He became active in the Labour Party, serving on Blyth Council from 1935 until 1938, and also on

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. He was elected at the 1935 general election as Member of Parliament (MP) for the Morpeth constituency in Northumberland, and held the seat until his death in 1954, aged 73. In

Clement Attlee Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, (3 January 18838 October 1967) was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1935 to 1955. He was Deputy Prime Mini ...

post-war Labour Government Clement Attlee was invited by King George VI to form the Attlee ministry in the United Kingdom in July 1945, succeeding Winston Churchill as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. The Labour Party had won a landslide victory at the 1945 gene ...

, he was a Lord of the Treasury from 1945 to 1951, serving as Deputy Chief Whip from 1946.''Junior Government Appointments.'' The Times, 1 April 1946. After Labour's defeat at the 1951 general election, he was appointed in 1952 as a Privy Counsellor.

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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