Peter Taylor, Baron Taylor of Gosforth
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The Right Honourable The Lord Taylor of Gosforth PC QC |
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| 13th Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales | |
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In office 27 April 1992 – 4 June 1996 |
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| Nominated by | The Lord Mackay of Clashfern |
| Appointed by | Elizabeth II |
| Preceded by | The Lord Lane |
| Succeeded by | The Lord Bingham of Cornhill |
| Lord Justice of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales | |
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In office 1988–1992 |
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| Appointed by | Elizabeth II |
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Peter Murray Taylor May 1, 1930 Newcastle upon Tyne |
| Died | April 28, 1997 (aged 66) |
| Nationality | British |
| Spouse(s) | Irene Taylor |
| Relations | Gwyneth Paltrow (distant cousin) |
| Children | Ruth Taylor Deborah Taylor Judith Taylor Louis Taylor |
| Parents | Louis Taylor (father) |
| Education | Royal Grammar School, Newcastle |
| Alma mater | Pembroke College, Cambridge |
| Awards |
Knight Bachelor Life Peer |
Peter Murray Taylor, Baron Taylor of Gosforth, PC, QC (1 May 1930 – 28 April 1997) was the Lord Chief Justice of England from 1992 until 1996.
Taylor came from a Yiddish speaking Jewish family who had emigrated to the UK from Marijampolė and Vilnius, Lithuania; the original name of the family was Teiger or Teicher. His father Louis was born in Leeds to where the family had emigrated, and became a doctor; his mother came from the rabbinical Palterovich family who had emigrated to Leeds in 1895 (Taylor was therefore a distant cousin of actress Gwyneth Paltrow). Taylor had a brother, Arthur, and a sister, Dorothy. By the time of his birth, the family were living in Newcastle upon Tyne; Taylor passed the 11-plus and attended the Royal Grammar School. During World War II, Newcastle was subject to bombing raids and Taylor was evacuated to Penrith where he lived in a house without either running water or mains electricity. He had 3 daughters Ruth, Deborah and Judith and 1 son Louis.
In 1951 Taylor won an exhibition to Pembroke College, Cambridge, to study law. He was also a talented pianist, continuing to play for the whole of his life. He graduated in 1953 with an upper second class degree and then read for the Bar, being called in 1954. He chose to practise on the north-eastern circuit around Newcastle and joined the chambers of Norman Harper. He conducted mainly criminal cases, often for the prosecution, and at a very early age 'took silk' to become a Queen's Counsel in 1967; he occasionally appeared for the defence and on one such occasion, the reactionary judge Melford Stevenson deemed him a threat to the administration of justice.
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