About Charity Taylor
Lived 1914 – 1998 (aged 83). Charity Taylor was a physician.
May Doris Charity Taylor, Baroness Taylor (née Clifford; 16 September 1914 – 4 January 1998) was an English physician and prison administrator who became the first woman prison governor in England.
Taylor was born on 16 September 1914, in Woking, and studied medicine at the Royal Free Hospital. She was appointed assistant medical officer at Holloway Prison in 1942, later becoming medical officer, before becoming governor in 1945.
Personal life In 1938, she married the physician/politician Stephen Taylor, who later became the Labour/SDP life peer Baron Taylor.
In popular culture She was played by Jean Rimmer in the 1980 drama Lady Killers. She was played by Juliet Stevenson in the 2025 drama A Cruel Love.
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British prison governor (1914-1998)
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Charity Taylor was born on 16 September 1914.
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Charity Taylor died on 4 January 1998.
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Charity Taylor was a physician.
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