Mary Jessie MacDonald Noble ISO FRSE FIB (23 February 1911 – 20 July 2002) was a seed pathologist for the Department of Agriculture for Scotland and was key in producing the Handbook of Seed-borne Diseases.
She was born in Edinburgh the daughter of John Noble a pharmacist on Gladstone Place on Leith Links.
[3] After university, she joined the plant pathology service of the Board of Agriculture (now known as SASA) based in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh.
Her proposers were Malcolm Wilson, Charles Edward Foister, John Anthony and Sir William Wright Smith.
[4] As well as becoming a Fellow, she also served as a councillor for British Mycological Society and the Association of Applied Biologists.