Ethel De la Cour OBE (6 December 1869 – 25 April 1957) was a British college head and soroptimist.

In 1896 she joined Christian Guthrie Wright and Louisa Stevenson who had founded a school for cookery in Edinburgh.

[2] During the first world war food was in short supply and eventually rationing was introduced.

She was involved with groups who were encouraging the use of new recipes so that the maximum nutrition could be obtained from those foods that were available.

She was already a Justice of the Peace and Principal of the "Edinburgh School of Cookery and Domestic Economy".