Lucy Everest Boole FRIC (5 August 1862 – 5 December 1904) was a British chemist and pharmacist who was the first woman to research pharmacy in England.

George Boole died in 1864 leaving the family poor; they returned to Britain, where her mother became a librarian at Queen's College, London.

[1] Lucy worked as a librarian and residence supervisor at Queens' College but received no university education.

[2] Shortly after finishing her education at the London School of Pharmacy, Lucy became the research assistant of Wyndham Dunstan, a chemistry professor of the Pharmaceutical Society.

Despite the strong criticism received for Lucy's proposal, it became the official method of assay in the British Pharmacopeia from 1898 to 1963.