Ella Corfield (née Caird) was a British pharmacist, achieving pioneering academic work in her early career and later business management.
[10][2] She is described as resigning these positions in 1921 to "become actively associated" with her husband, Charles Corfield's work in the analytical chemistry business Harrison and Self on Chancery Lane, and his editorship of the British Pharmaceutical Codex and the Extra Pharmacopoeia.
[7] Having gone into partnership with Mr Self in 1925, Charles Corfield's subsequent ill-health led to his wife getting heavily involved in the business.
[13] She served as president of the Pharmaceutical Society's School of Pharmacy Past Students’ Association in 1930, the first woman to take that role.
She raised two detachments in her local area of Barnet, and qualified as an instructor in first aid, home nursing, anti-gas measures and artificial respiration.