Papers of Sister Monica Taylor, 1877-1968, biologist, senior lecturer in Science, Notre Dame Training College, Glasgow, Scotland 1897-1957

Notre Dame College of Education 1895-1981

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Taylor Monica Nun biologist

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Taylor, Sister Monica (1877-1968: biologist, senior lecturer in Science, Notre Dame Training College, Glasgow, Scotland)

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Sister Monica Taylor was born in 1877 at St Helen's, Lancashire, England. The key influences in her development as a scientist were her father, a science teacher, her uncle, an industrial chemist, and her cousin, Sir Hugh Taylor, at one time Dean of Princeton Graduate School. She trained as a teacher at Mount Pleasant Teacher Training College in Liverpool, England from 1896 until 1898 , before entering the noviciate of the religious Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur in Belgium. In 1900, she made he...