Eva Germaine Rimington Taylor (22 June 1879–5 July 1966) was a British geographer and historian of science, the first woman to hold an academic chair of geography in the United Kingdom.
[3] Taylor was an expert on mathematical practitioners such as William Bourne and identified thousands of practical mathematicians from the Tudor and Stuart period, and then the Hanoverian era.
[3] Her work on instrument makers and textbook authors was an important contrubution to better known histories about well-known figures.
[2] Taylor published ten books, hundreds of articles and contributed to multi-authored volumes on the subjects of history of geography and mathematics.
[3] Taylor was a recipient of the Victoria Medal of the Royal Geographical Society in 1947 and was made honorary fellow in 1965.
She was one of the first Fellows of Birkbeck College, and an Honorary Member of the British Society for the History of Science (BSHS) and of the Royal Institute of Navigation.
[4][5] The Eva G. R. Taylor Lecture series on "subjects related to the disciplines to which Professor Taylor's studies made such brilliant contributions" was sponsored by the Royal Institute of Navigation, the BSHS, the Society for Nautical Research and Birkbeck College.