Matthew Taylor, Baron Taylor of Goss Moor
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The Right Honourable The Lord Taylor of Goss Moor |
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| Chair of the Liberal Democrats | |
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In office 12 June 2003 – 5 May 2005 |
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| Leader | Charles Kennedy |
| Preceded by | Mark Oaten |
| Succeeded by | Paul Holmes |
| Liberal Democrats Treasury Spokesman | |
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In office 9 August 1999 – 12 June 2003 |
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| Leader | Charles Kennedy |
| Preceded by | Malcolm Bruce |
| Succeeded by | Vince Cable |
| Member of Parliament for Truro and St Austell Truro (1987–1997) |
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In office 13 March 1987 – 12 April 2010 |
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| Preceded by | David Penhaligon |
| Succeeded by | Seat Abolished |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 3 January 1963 |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Liberal Democrats |
Matthew Owen John Taylor, Baron Taylor of Goss Moor (born 3 January 1963) is a Liberal Democrat politician in the United Kingdom. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Truro and St Austell in Cornwall from 1987 until he stood down at the 2010 general election. He was granted a life peerage and so became a member of the House of Lords in July 2010.
Matthew Taylor is the adopted son of Kenneth Taylor, a television script writer best known for The Jewel in the Crown and The Camomile Lawn.
In 2008 he traced his birth mother and learnt that his great-grandfather had been another Liberal MP Sir Percy Harris who served later as an allied-Progressive MP.
Taylor was educated at two independent schools: at Treliske Preparatory School (now known as Truro School Prep) on Highertown (A390) in Truro, and University College School in Hampstead, north London, followed by Lady Margaret Hall at the University of Oxford where he read Philosophy, Politics and Economics.
Politically active from a young age, Taylor campaigned in his first general election in 1979 at the age of sixteen and joined the Cornwall anti-nuclear alliance a year later. After winning a scholarship, he studied Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. While there, he was elected as President of the Oxford University Student Union for the year 1985–86 on the Liberal/SDP Alliance ticket.
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