Elizabeth Coxen

Elizabeth Frances Coxen (née Isaac 1825–1906) was an Australian naturalist and meteorologist.

Born in Gloucestershire, England, Coxen emigrated to with her family to Sydney, Colony of New South Wales in 1839.

[1][2][3] She was a collector of shells, insects and birds, as was her husband, Charles Coxen, and they donated many specimens to the Queensland Museum, where Elizabeth worked as curator.

[5] Coxen died in Brisbane on 11 August 1906[6][7] and was buried with her husband in the cemetery of Christ Church in Tingalpa.

Her friends commissioned a plaque commemorating her at St John the Baptist Anglican Church at Bulimba.