Elinor Ewbank

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

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.

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] During World War I, Ewbank volunteered as a nurse with the British Red Cross, treating Russian and Italian troops.