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Taylor A E

 A E Taylor  A member of a large family with Labour-supporting parents, and a father who was a toolmaker.  At 13, he started a half-time job, to help out at home, and at the age […]

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Taylor Cleston

Cleston Taylor Cleston Taylor was born in St Catherine, Jamaica, in 1926. His father was a peasant farmer and his mother a housewife. Cleston attended school until the sixth form and then went to the United States in […]

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Taylor Annie

Annie Taylor Sister of the Communist building workers’ leader, Frank Jackson, Annie Taylor was a long-term and hard-working fund-raiser for the Daily Worker and Morning Star. She died aged 91 in 1987, in Brighton. Source: […]

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Taylor Cyril Dr

Dr Cyril Taylor Taylor was born in 1921 in New Brighton, Liverpool to Orthodox Jewish parents. His grandfather had fled the pogroms of Eastern Europe to settle in Merseyside. The families name changing from Zadesky […]

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Taylor Murdoch

Murdoch Taylor Taylor was first active in the Young Communist League from the 1930s and came from Kirkcaldy, Fife in Scotland. Reporting on the 11th YCL Conference of Scotland held in Glasgow in 1939, and […]

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Taylor Sammy

Sammy Taylor Sammy Taylor began work as a miner aged 14 and led his first strike at Barnsley Main Colliery aged only 21. Having joined the Yorkshire Miners Association in 1922, twenty years later he […]