Juanita "Nita" Gordon Lloyd Burnby (1923 - 3 July 2010) of Wirksworth, Derby, was a British pharmacist who was president of the British Society for the History of Pharmacy and the author of works on the history of the area once occupied by the Edmonton Hundred, and the history of medicine and pharmacy.
[3] Burnby worked as a quality control analyst for John Richardson of Leicester and obtained a University of London external degree of Bachelor of Pharmacy from Leicester College of Technology.
She joined the British Society for the History of Pharmacy early and eventually became its president.
She wrote widely on the subject and edited the society's journal the Pharmaceutical Historian.
She wrote a thesis on the history of the English apothecary, for which she received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, which was published as A Study of the English Apothecary from 1660 to 1760 by the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London in 1983.