Elizabeth Best Taylor OBE JP (née Ellison; 21 September 1868 – 27 April 1941) was a New Zealand temperance worker, community leader and social reformer.

Elizabeth Best Ellison was born in Lyttelton, New Zealand, in 1868.

[1] Taylor was a founding member of the National Council of Women of New Zealand in 1896; and, she represented the WCTU NZ at the Pan-Pacific Conference in Honolulu in 1928, later becoming president of the Dominion Pan-Pacific Women's Association.

In the 1937 Coronation Honours, Taylor was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, for social welfare services.

[2] Taylor died in Dunedin on 27 April 1941, and she is buried near her husband in the Addington Cemetery in Christchurch.