Eva Germaine Rimington Taylor (1879–1966) was an

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geographer and historian of science, the first woman to hold an academic chair of geography in the

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. Taylor was educated at the

Camden School for Girls The Camden School for Girls (CSG) is a comprehensive secondary school for girls, with a co-educational sixth form, in the London Borough of Camden in north London. It has about one thousand students of ages eleven to eighteen, and specialist- ...

, the

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, and

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. In 1903 she obtained a first class BSc in

chemistry Chemistry is the science, scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter. It is a natural science that covers the Chemical element, elements that make up matter to the chemical compound, compounds made of atoms, molecules and ions ...

from the

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. While teaching chemistry she studied at the

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and from 1908 to 1910 acted as research assistant to A. J. Herbertson, head of the Oxford Geography School. She wrote school geography textbooks in collaboration with J. F. Unstead, and lectured at Clapham Training College for Teachers, the Froebel Institute, the East London College (later

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), and

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. Gaining a DSc in geography from the

in 1929, she was appointed professor of geography in 1930, and held the post until 1944.

Works

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Second Edition, 1971
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References

*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
‘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
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 * {{DEFAULTSORT:Taylor, Eva Germaine Rimington 1879 births 1966 deaths Alumni of Royal Holloway, University of London Alumni of the University of London Academics of Birkbeck, University of London Academics of Queen Mary University of London British geographers Historians of science British historians of mathematics People educated at Camden School for Girls Women geographers Victoria Medal recipients