Elinor Ewbank
Elinor Katharine Ewbank (1880 – 1958) was an English chemist and archaeologist.
Early life and education
[edit]She was born on 19 October 1880 at Ryde, the eldest of three daughters of vicar Henry Ewbank and his wife Louisa, née Wollaston.[1]
Educated at Highfield School, Hendon, she studied chemistry at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford from 1899 to 1903.[2] 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
[edit]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.[1]
From 1919 – 20, she worked in the organic chemistry research division of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research.[1] From 1921, she frequently collaborated with Nevil Sidgwick on salts and metal compounds.
In 1929, she worked as a surveyor at Dorothy Garrod's first season of excavation at Mount Carmel. Garrod, her fellow Oxford alumna, had assembled a team of mostly women including Mary Kitson Clark, Harriet M. Allyn and Martha Hackett.[3][4]
In the 1930s she remained in Israel, researching at the Department of Biochemistry and Colloidal Chemistry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.[1]
Personal life and death
[edit]During World War I, Ewbank volunteered as a nurse with the British Red Cross, treating Russian and Italian troops.[1][5]
She was an amateur needlework artist and executed designs by her relative, the artist Duncan Grant.[6][7]
She died in Oxford on 21 January 1958.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f Rayner-canham, Marelene; Rayner-canham, Geoff (2019-12-30). Pioneering British Women Chemists: Their Lives And Contributions. World Scientific. p. 98. ISBN 978-1-78634-770-1.
- ^ Fishwick-Ford, Jamie. "Oxford LibGuides: Lady Margaret Hall Library: Early Science". libguides.bodleian.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2024-09-20.
- ^ Hamilton, Sue; Whitehouse, Ruth D.; Wright, Katherine I. (2016-09-16). Archaeology and Women: Ancient and Modern Issues. Routledge. p. 77. ISBN 978-1-315-43411-7.
- ^ Adams, Amanda (2010). Ladies of the Field: Early Women Archaeologists and Their Search for Adventure. Greystone Books Ltd. p. 175. ISBN 978-1-55365-433-9.
- ^ "Life story: Elinor K Ewbank | Lives of the First World War". livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk. Retrieved 2024-09-20.
- ^ Spalding, Frances (2011-04-30). Duncan Grant. Random House. ISBN 978-1-4090-2938-0.
- ^ Council, British (1942). Exhibition of Modern British Crafts. British Council, London. p. 60.
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