John Taylor, Baron Taylor of Warwick

John Taylor, Baron Taylor Of Warwick

John David Beckett, Baron Taylor of Warwick (born 21 September 1952) is a member of the House of Lords in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. He became the first black Conservative peer in 1996, after unsuccessfully standing as a Conservative parliamentary candidate in Cheltenham in the 1992 general election. Taylor initially practised as a barrister and has also been a company director and a TV and radio presenter. In January 2011, after a trial in the Crown Court, he was convicted of false accounting in connection with his Parliamentary expenses claims. Taylor was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment on 31 May 2011 but was released under home detention curfew just 3 months later. At a further hearing in September 2012 he was ordered to pay £151,038 as part of the proceeds of his crimes.