Taylor, Millicent

The construction of science laboratories was one of Beale s priorities. This was accomplished as noted in a description of the school in a 1900 issue of Girl s Realm in the Science Department there is a laboratory for physics and two for chemistry. .. 32 while a new Science wing was added in 1904 that was designed by Millicent Taylor, the woman chemist who linked CLC and University College, Bristol (see Chap. 5).33... 

Millicent Taylor (P) [5] Lecturer, Chemistry, Ladies College, Cheltenham... 

Baker, W. (1962). Millicent Taylor 1871-1960. Proceedings of the Chemical Society 94. 

We have already discussed the work of May Leslie on the improvement of nitric acid synthesis (see Chap. 5), first at H. M. Factory, Litherland, Liverpool, then at H. M. Factory in Penrhyndeudraeth, North Wales.45 Isabel Hadfield was consigned to research chemical problems relating to aeronautics (see Chap. 2). In addition, we know that towards the end of the war, Millicent Taylor was appointed to H. M. Factory, Oldbury, as a research chemist.46 It seems likely that other explosives factories also employed women chemists, but they were not documented. 

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