Eleanor Mary Ord Laurie Isserlis (14 January 1919 - 17 March 2009)[1] was a British mammalogist.
[2] Laurie was the head of the Mammal Department at the British Museum of Natural History.
[1] She graduated from St Hugh's College, Oxford in 1942 with a Master of Science degree.
In its 1949–1950 issue, the St Hugh's College Chronicle noted that she was appointed Senior Scientific Officer at the British Museum in its Zoology Department.
[5] Laurie described a number of new mammal species, including: On 29 December 1949,[3] she married Alexander Reginald Isserlis, who would become Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister in 1970.