Florence Mary Taylor

Florence Mary Taylor CBE (née Parsons) (29 December 1879, Bedminster, England - 13 February 1969, Sydney, Australia) 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. Florence was born at Bedminster, in Somerset (now Bristol), England to working class parents who described themselves as "stone quarryman" and "washerwoman" in the British census of 1881. Her...