Elinor Ewbank

Students of Lady Margaret Hall in 1901. Elinor Ewbank is fourth from left in back row Elinor Katharine Ewbank (1880 – 1958) was an English chemist and archaeologist.

Early life and education She was born on 19 October 1880 at Ryde, the eldest of three daughters of vicar Henry Ewbank and his wife Louisa, née Wollaston.

Educated at Highfield School, Hendon, she studied chemistry at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford from 1899 to 1903. She was one of the first women admitted to degrees at the University of Oxford when Oxford began granting degrees to women in 1920.

Scientific career and archaeology Ewbank carried out chemical research with Edward C. C. Baly at the Spectroscopy Laboratory of University College, London, co-authoring two papers with him in 1905.

In the 1930s she remained in Israel, researching at the Department of Biochemistry and Colloidal Chemistry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

She was an amateur needlework artist and executed designs by her relative, the artist Duncan Grant.

She died in Oxford on 21 January 1958.