They were an Anglo-Irish family and Lorimer was educated in Trinity College Dublin where she studied Modern Languages and finished there in 1904.

She married David Lockhart Robertson Lorimer in 1910 in Christ Church, Leeson Park, Dublin.

[1][2][3][4][5][6] She worked as a tutor in Germanic Philology for Somerville College, Oxford, where, in her spare time, she learned Sanskrit.

David's sister, Hilda took the position of vice-principal of Somerville College during the second world war.

She also worked as editor of Basrah Times during World War I and she was connected with the Red Cross.