Helen Brodie Cowan Bannerman (née Watson; 25 February 1862 – 13 October 1946) was a Scottish children's writer.

[1] When the family returned, they spent much time with their maternal aunt, Mrs Cowan, at 35 Royal Terrace on Calton Hill.

[1] She then married Dr William Burney Bannerman, a physician and an officer in the Indian Medical Service (IMS), in 1889.

She died at home on 13 October 1946, of cerebral thrombosis and a fractured femur; her body was cremated.

[citation needed] Bannerman was the grandmother of the physicist Tom Kibble, who discovered the Higgs–Kibble mechanism and the Higgs boson.