Clara Millicent Taylor
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Clara Millicent Taylor
Clara Millicent Taylor (1885 – 1940) Research Chemist and Educator (Not to be confused with Dr Millicent Taylor (1871-1960), chemist and educator.)
Education and research career
Clara Taylor studied Chemistry at Victoria College, Wellington, New Zealand 1902-07, graduating with MA Honours..[1]. She researched with Thomas H Easterfield [2][3] [4]. She moved to England 1911 to undertake research at Newnham College, Cambridge working with William Jackson Pope [5].
Teacher and Educator
In 1912 Taylor became Science Teacher at Clapham High School. For eight years (1913-21?) she was Senior Science Mistress at St Paul’s Girls’ School, London. She was Head Mistress of Northampton Girls’ School for 5 years (1921-26?) before becoming Head Mistress of Redland High School, Bristol 1926-1940[6] [7]. She continued to publish during this period [8] [9] [10] .
She was President of the Association of Women Science Teachers, 1925-26, and Vice President for 1927 [11]
She died suddenly in post in January 1940[12]
References[edit]
- ↑ New Zealand Electronic Text Collection. Victoria, University of Wellington https://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-Carn1907-t1-body-d1.html. Retrieved 30 December 2023. Missing or empty
|title=(help) - ↑ Easterfield, Thomas H.; Taylor, Clara Millicent (1911). "The preparation of the ketones of the higher fatty acids". Journal of the Chemical Society, Transactions. 99: 2298-2307.
- ↑ Easterfield, Thomas H; Taylor, Clara Millicent. "Process for the Preparation of Ketones". Washington D.C., US Patent and Trademark Office: Patent #1,058,225.
- ↑ Taylor, Clara Millicent. "The Rotatory Powers of the d- and l-Methyl-ethylphenacylthetine salts". Journal of the Chemical Society, Transactions. 101: 1124-1127.
- ↑ Pope, William Jackson; Taylor, Clara Millicent. "The Resolution of 2 : 3-diphenyl-2 : 3-dihydro-1 3 : 4- naphthaisotriazine into optically active components". Journal of the Chemical Society, Transactions. 103: 1763-1767.
- ↑ . Western Daily Press, Bristol. June 1, 1926. Missing or empty
|title=(help) - ↑ Anon (1995). Redlands High School, Old Girls’ Guild Newsletter https://potentiality-redmaidsschool.daisy.websds.net/Filename.ashx?tableName=ta_publications&columnName=filename&recordId=272. Retrieved 30 December 2023. Missing or empty
|title=(help) - ↑ Taylor, Clara Millicent (1923). The Discovery of the Nature of the Air, and of its changes during breathing. Classics of Scientific Method. Search this book on
- ↑ Taylor, Clara Millicent (1928). Junior Dictionary for Domestic Science Students. Search this book on
- ↑ Taylor, Clara Millicent; Thomas, P.K. (1930). Elementary Chemistry for students of hygiene and housecraft. Search this book on
- ↑ Rayner-Canham, Marelene; Rayner-Canham, Geoff (2017). A Chemical Passion. London: UCL IoE Press. p. 95. ISBN 978-1-78277-188-3. Search this book on
- ↑ . Western Daily Press and Bristol Mirror. January 13, 1940. Missing or empty
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