Elsie Higgon (née Hooper; 1879–1969) was the first Joint Secretary of the (National) Association of Women Pharmacists; researcher for King's College, the British Medical Journal and the British Pharmaceutical Codex; Lecturer in Chemistry at Portsmouth Municipal College; proprietor pharmacist of two businesses in Hampstead, proprietor of the Gordon Hall School of Pharmacy for Women in Gordon Square, and a supporter of the suffrage movement.

She undertook her research with Professor Greenish, including a joint paper in 1904 on "The So-called Beilschmeide Bark" (later published in the Pharmaceutical Journal in 1907).

[2] She had a number of other notes and papers published in the Pharmaceutical Journal: with Greenish on "Constituents of Simarouba Bark" in 1902, on "Exhaustion of Belladonna Root with Alcohol" in July 1904, and on "Liquid Extract of Cinchona" in October 1904.

[2][1] Meanwhile while carrying out research and working as a Demonstrator at the PSGB School, she studied for a degree in botany and chemistry in the evenings at Birkbeck College, which she gained in 1905.

[6] In 1923, she presented a paper with her colleague Katherine King at the British Pharmaceutical Conference on "International Standardisation of Colchicum Preparations".

[9] A short report in The Chemist and Druggist on 24 June 1911 informs the reader that Elsie Hooper B.Sc.has taken part in the Science Section of a march to call for women's suffrage.

The marriage certificate records her profession as analytical chemist whilst her new husband was an aeronautical engineer, having previously served with the Royal Air Force.