Catherine Taylor (South African politician)
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 from 1953–74, Shadow Minister of Education from 1971-74, and Shadow Secretary for Coloured Affairs from 1972–74. She also wrote an autobiography, "If Courage Goes". She was the daughter of Harold Stephen Sharpe, an Anglican priest and archdeacon. She studied 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

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1914 births
1992 deaths
United Party (South Africa) politicians
Members of the House of Assembly (South Africa)
20th-century South African women politicians
20th-century South African politicians
British emigrants to South Africa