John Taylor
Date of birth: 21 September 1952 Place of birth: No information
Marital status & family: Married, one son, two daughters
Best known for: Failing to win the Tory safe seat of Cheltenham
Honours & accolades: Life Peer 1996
John Taylor is remembered as the Black Conservative peer who failed to win the previously safe seat of Cheltenham in 1992.
A barrister-at-law, Taylor also worked for both BBC Television and Radio as a producer, presenter and broadcaster.
He is the son of the late Warwickshire cricketer Derief David Samuel Taylor and hit the pre-election headlines (2001) over race issues and was believed to have threatened to leave the party.
Taylor lashed out in press over remarks made by Rightwing Tory MP John Townend, who said immigrants had 'undermined Anglo-Saxon society'. The Lord in demanding that party leader William Hague discipline the MP said: "The Conservatives just don't know how to handle race.
"The only reason why I stay in the party is because I want to change it's attitude," he added.
Lord Taylor states his hobbies as cricket and is a member of Aston Villa Football Club, and is additionally involved in the comitee for Sickle Cell Anaemia Relief.
"The only reason I stay in the Tory party is to help change it's attitude."
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