Lyra Taylor

Lyra Veronica Esmeralda Taylor (11 July 1894–1979) was a New Zealand lawyer and social worker. She spent much of her career in Australia.

Taylor was born on 11 July 1894 in Stratford, New Zealand.

Taylor studied law at the Victoria University of Wellington, and was "called to the bar" in 1918, the first woman to be a barrister in Wellington.

In 1944 she started work with the Australian Department of Social Services.