Harriet Elizabeth Marks

Harriet Elizabeth Marks (25 November 1900 – 1 March 1989) was an Australian schoolteacher and educationist. She was the principal of the Domestic Science High School in Brisbane. She was the inspector of domestic science for schools in Queensland and President of the Women's College council in the 1970s.

Life Marks was born in Queensland in 1900. Her parents had been born in the UK. Her mother Harriet Ann (born McGregor) was a Scot, and her father George Marks was from Cornwall. She was their first child and her parents returned to England between 1906 and 1910 but they then returned to Charters Towers, which is where she had been born. After local schooling she won a scholarship to study science at the University of Queensland's newly opened Women's College. The college was founded in 1913 and it admitted its first women residents in 1914 under Freda Bage, the first principal.

She was an admirer of the domestic science pioneer Marianne Helena Brydon

In 1951 she became the principal of the Domestic Science High School in Brisbane She wrote and published, Nutrition and Elementary Food Science.

The joined the Women's College's council and in the 1970s she was the council's President. in 1981. She left the council in 1986.

Marks died in the Brisbane suburb of Auchenflower in 1989.