As doctor, politician, and administrator the late Lord Taylor was a key figure in the formative years of some varied institutions: the National Health Service; Harlow New Town (playing an important part in its development and in its industrial health service); and the Memorial University of Newfoundland, of which he was the first president and vice chancellor. He also laid the foundations of Medicare in Canada by his skilful negotiations to resolve the doctors' strike in Saskatchewan. In his lively and provocative memoirs Lord Taylor relates his "personal voyage" from childhood, through student days at St Thomas's to his later career in public life, providing on the way innumerable pungent observations together with his views on the origins of some of society's ills -- and their cures. Dust jacket.