- Eva Germaine Rimington Taylor
Eva Germaine Rimington Taylor (1871-1966) was an English geographer and historian of science, the first woman to hold an academic chair of geography in the
United Kingdom .Taylor was educated at the
Camden School for Girls , theNorth London Collegiate School , and Royal Holloway College. In 1903 she obtained a first class BSc inchemistry from theUniversity of London . While teaching chemistry she studied at theUniversity of Oxford and from 1908 to 1910 acted as research assistant toA. J. Herbertson , head of the Oxford Geography School. She wrote school geography textbooks in collaboration withJ. F. Unstead , and lectured atClapham Training College for Teachers , theFroebel Institute , the East London College (later Queen Mary College), and Birkbeck College. Gaining a DSc in geography from theUniversity of London in 1929, she was appointed professor of geography in 1930, and held the post until 1944.Works
*"Tudor Geography, 1485–1583", 1930
*"Late Tudor and Early Stuart Geography, 1583–1650", 1934
*"The Mathematical Practitioners of Tudor and Stuart England", 1954
*"The Haven-Finding Art: a History of Navigation from Odysseus to Captain Cook", 1956
*"The Mathematical Practitioners of Hanoverian England", 1966References
*G. R. Crone, 'Obituary: Professor E. G. R. Taylor, D. Sc.', "The Geographical Journal" 132:4 (1966), pp. 594-596
External links
*Eila M. J. Campbell, [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/36429 ‘Taylor, Eva Germaine Rimington (1879–1966)’] , rev. Elizabeth Baigent, "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography", Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 6 Dec 2007
*Peter de Clercq, [http://www.hakluyt.com/journal_articles/2007/DeClercqTaylor.pdf?PHPSESSID=04d64dffc2f50e1499c84da5b4d115e6 The Life andWork of E.G.R. Taylor (1879–1966), author of "The Mathematical Practitioners of Tudor and Stuart England" and "The Mathematical Practitioners of Hanoverian England"] , "The Journal of the Hakluyt Society", February 2007
*worldcat id|lccn-n50-9262
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