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==Life==
Alice Buxton Taylor was born in 1891, in Claverdon, Warwickshire, the second of five accomplished children. Her father was John William Taylor (1851–1910) who was a professor of [[gynaecology]] at the [[University of Birmingham]]. Alice’s mother, Florence Maberly Buxton (1856–1934), a teacher before she married, had educated all her children at home in their early years. Alice went on to the [[King Edward VI Aston School|King Edward VI High School for Girls]] in Birmingham. In 1912 Alice went up to Cambridge, following her mother and older sister Mary into [[Newnham College]] (1912–1915), studying the [[Natural Sciences (Cambridge)|Natural Sciences Tripos]]. While she was in Cambridge she joined the geological [[Sedgwick Club]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=
After her time at Cambridge, Taylor spent five years (1916–1920) at the [[National Physical Laboratory (United Kingdom)|National Physical Laboratory]] in [[Teddington]], carrying out research into ceramics and optical glass, ‘where, for most of the time, I was the only woman research student’.<ref>Taylor, A. (1959) Questionnaire to update Registrar of the Roll of biographical detail of alumni, Newnham College archive.</ref> She references the work as being ‘in connection with the urgent needs of Government and Industry’ and refers to the work as ‘Refractorics’, testing materials under very high temperatures and casting optical glass pots under pressure.
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