Taylor, Janet (1804–1870)

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Taylor, Janet (1804–1870)

English nautical teacher and writer. Born Jane Ann Ionn, May 13, 1804, in Wolsingham, England; died of bronchitis, Jan 26, 1870, in London; 5th of 8 children of Peter Ionn (cleric) and Joyce Ionn; m. George Taylor Jane (brewer who agreed to drop his surname so she would not be Jane Jane), 1825 (died 1853); children: 5, including Herbert (b. 1831).

Mathematician, astronomer, meteorologist, writer and instrument maker, set up home in East Street, Lion Square, London, at time of marriage, where she began Mrs. Janet Taylor's Nautical Academy and Navigation Warehouse (c. 1830); taught merchant navy officers navigation techniques; learned principles of navigation at her father's free grammar school; taught algebra, astronomy and geometry; adjusted compasses in iron merchant ships; published Lunar Tables for Calculating Distances (3rd ed., c. 1840) and a pilot book for the Brazilian coast. Received gold medals from kings of Prussia and Holland.

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