Norah Kathleen May Gurney (née Dewar) (1921 – 5 February 1974) was a British archivist and Director of the Borthwick Institute of Historical Research.
[1][2][3] Norah Dewar was born in London in 1921 and studied modern history at St Hugh's College, Oxford.
In 1946, after the end of her marriage, she joined Sheffield County Library and worked in the local history and archives department.
In 1956 she became assistant archivist to Canon J. S. Purvis as at the Borthwick Institute of Historical Research, eventually succeeding him as Archivist-in-Charge from 1963.
She was subsequently appointed Director in 1971, a post she held until her death in 1974.