Florence Mary Taylor
Architect
1879 – 1969
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Who was Florence Mary Taylor?
Florence Mary Taylor CBE was the first qualified female architect and the first woman to train as an engineer in Australia. She was also the first woman in Australia to fly in a heavier-than-air craft in 1909. However she is best known for her role as publisher, editor and writer for the influential building industry trade journals established in 1907 with her husband George, which she ran and expanded after his death in 1928 until her retirement in 1961.
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- Born
- Dec 29, 1879
Bedminster, Bristol - Spouses
- George Augustine Taylor
(1907/04/03 - )
- George Augustine Taylor
- Nationality
- Australia
- Profession
- Education
- Sydney Technical College
- Lived in
- Sydney
- Bristol
- Died
- Feb 13, 1969
Potts Point
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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