Catherine Taylor (South African politician)
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Catherine Dorothea Taylor (4 February 1914 in Birmingham, England – 9 April 1992 in Cape Town) was a South African politician. She was the Member of Parliament for Wynberg, Cape Town until she resigned from the United Party in 1974.
Taylor was a United MP for Wynberg, 1953–74, Shadow Minister of Education 1971-74 and Shadow Secretary for Coloured Affairs 1972–74. She also wrote an autobiography, "If Courage Goes".
She was a daughter of Harold Stephen Sharpe an Anglican priest and archdeacon. She read philosophy, languages, psychology and history at Bristol University.
Taylor married Lance Gordon Taylor in Cape Town on 5 September 1939. They had three sons.
Works
If Courage Goes: My Twenty Years In South African Politics. Johannesburg: Macmillan. 1976. ISBN 978-0-86954-027-5.
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