Elizabeth Jill Cowley (born 1940)[1] is a British botanist, who has worked at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Her interests have included the tropical flora of East Africa and the genus Roscoea.
After working at a nursery at Tadworth, Surrey, she took a horticultural course at Merrist Wood Farm Institute (1958), then worked at Elm Garden Nurseries, Claygate for eight years.
[2] She started working at Kew Gardens in 1968 in the Temperate House, Himalaya section.
[3][4] Born Elizabeth Jill Bedwell, she married Richard Cowley, a Kew student, in 1970.