Clara Millicent Taylor (12 December 1885 – 10 January 1940) was a research chemist and educator from New Zealand.
She was one of seven children of Robert Taylor, a farmer from England, and his New Zealand-born wife Mary, née Morrison.
[1][14] In 1908, Taylor was the only student at Victoria College to apply for a government research scholarship worth £100 per year plus laboratory fees.
Professors Harry Kirk and Thomas H. Easterfield supported Taylor's nomination for the scholarship.
[10] Taylor moved to England in 1911 to undertake research at Newnham College, Cambridge, working with William Jackson Pope.