Background
Her parents were Henry Taylor, a historian and antiquarian who married her mother, a Mission Venables.
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Margery Taylor
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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.
Career
She was particularly instrumental in recording excavations in Roman Britain. 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.
Achievements
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Secretary for the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies between 1923 and 1954, becoming vice-president in 1954 and president from 1956 to 1958. In 1925 she was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, where she was the first woman to hold the office of vice-president of the Society. Vice Secretary of the Society of Antiquaries in London Elected Honorary Research Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford in 1946 In 1947 she became an honorary member of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne In 1949 she was awarded with the Commander of the Order of the British Empire She wrote a large number of articles for various archaeological journals, and for many years edited the She contributed material on Roman Britain to the Victoria County Histories. She also excavated in North Wales with Mortimer Wheeler.
Membership
In 1947 she became an honorary member of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne.
