Name Margery Taylor | ||
Died 24 December 1963
Oxford Occupation Archaeologist and Historian Alma mater Somerville College, Oxford | ||
Margery Venables Taylor (1881-1963) was an archaeologist and editor of the Journal of Roman Studies, and held posts including Secretary for the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies. She was particularly instrumental in recording excavations in Roman Britain. Her parents were Henry Taylor, a historian and antiquarian who married her mother, a Miss Venables.
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Education
Margery Venables Taylor was educated at Queen's School, Chester and Somerville College, Oxford, where she took the examinations for which women were not at that time awarded with a degree.
Main Posts and Achievements
She wrote a large number of articles for various archaeological journals, and for many years edited the Journal of Roman Studies. She contributed material on Roman Britain to the Victoria County Histories.
She also excavated in North Wales with Mortimer Wheeler
Journal of Roman Studies
Taylor had worked as an assistant to Francis Haverfield for several years, and following his death took up the editorship of the JRS for a further four decades. Although not herself an Administrator, she worked and travelled widely on behalf of the Haverfield Bequest, which was to be applied to the promotion of the study of Roman Britain.
As joint Secretary of the Society of Promotion of Roman Studies and Editor of the Journal, she made the decision to focus resources on the Journal at the cost of other projects, and to publish the annual account of excavation in Roman Britain. She also created the Congress of Classical Studies, held jointly with the Hellenic Society and the Classical Association, which became a triennial event.