She was committed to her career as a researcher, publishing more than 100 scientific papers about tropical diseases and viral infections, among other topics, and was married to Ken Taylor, who served as Canada’s ambassador in Iran
Patricia Taylor was a microbiologist who worked on important research in fields such as vaccines and AIDS, and who as a young woman became an accomplished ballerina and musician. She was also married to the famous Canadian diplomat, Ken Taylor, and helped him when six American diplomats were hidden and then spirited out of Iran in 1980 in what became known as the Canadian Caper. Dr. Taylor died on Sept. 9 at a retirement home in Ottawa. She was 95.
The title of her PhD thesis in 1964 was: “Nutrition and infection: the effect of malnutrition on the inflammatory response as exhibited by the granuloma pouch of the rat.” The thesis runs to 210 pages. “She was a trailblazer. She worked in her field which was quite unusual at the time because diplomatic spouses didn’t tend to work outside the embassy, but Pat always did,” said Malcolm McKechnie, who met the Taylors in 1981 when he was posted to the Canadian Consulate in New York, where Mr. Taylor was consul-general. Mr. McKechnie rose to be Canadian Ambassador to Spain. “We became friends, and they visited me at my various postings,” said Mr.
Until then, she had been working at a laboratory in Tehran and teaching at the university during the height of the Iranian Revolution, which saw the Shah overthrown and sent into exile. “She was a remarkable individual in every sense,” Douglas Taylor said from his home in Miami, Fla. “She had incredible drive. Imagine the daughter of a grocery store owner in Australia making it out to achieve all she did.”
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