Teddy Taylor
| Sir Teddy Taylor | |
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Teddy Taylor in 2009
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| Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland | |
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In office 9 December 1976 – 3 May 1979 |
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| Leader | Margaret Thatcher |
| Preceded by | Alick Buchanan-Smith |
| Succeeded by | Bruce Millan |
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Member of Parliament for Rochford and Southend East Southend East (1980–1997) |
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In office 14 March 1980 – 11 April 2005 |
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| Preceded by | Sir Stephen McAdden |
| Succeeded by | James Duddridge |
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Member of Parliament for Glasgow Cathcart |
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In office 15 October 1964 – 3 May 1979 |
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| Preceded by | John Henderson |
| Succeeded by | John Maxton |
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Edward MacMillan Taylor 18 April 1937 Glasgow, Scotland |
| Nationality | Scottish |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse(s) | Sheila |
Sir Edward MacMillan Taylor (born 18 April 1937) is a British Conservative Party politician who was a member of parliament (MP) from 1964 to 1979 for Glasgow Cathcart and from 1980 to 2005 for Rochford and Southend East.
He was a leading member and vice-president of the Conservative Monday Club.
Taylor was born in Glasgow. After being a pupil at the High School of Glasgow, he worked as a journalist on the Glasgow Herald and a Glasgow City Councillor from 1960. He fought Glasgow Springburn at the 1959 general election, but he was beaten by Labour's John Forman.
He first entered Parliament in the 1964 election as MP for Glasgow Cathcart, at the time being the Baby of the House, as he was the youngest MP. He became a Scottish Office minister in Edward Heath's government. He resigned from this position in protest at the UK joining the European Economic Community. Because of his strong personal following, he held onto the working-class Glasgow constituency of Cathcart, one of only two Conservative seats in Glasgow in the 1970s.
He was a controversial figure in his time in Scottish politics, sometimes known as "dial-a-quote", or for his calls to bring back the birch. Brian Wilson, journalist and later Labour MP, wrote that calling him by a nice cuddly name like "Teddy" was "like calling the hound of the Baskervilles 'Rover.'"
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