Worker on water beetles who was wife of Professor Joseph Omer-Cooper (1893-1972) the distinquished invertebrate zoologist. Spent much of their professional lives in South Africa after he left Durham University in 1936 to take up the post of Senior Lecturer at Rhodes University College. She was a lecturer at King’s College, Newcastle in 1935 and a Northern Naturalist’s Union referee for Isopoda, Dytiscidae and Gyrinidae. It is not clear whether the collection of Coleoptera at the Hancock Museum (donated in 1982), was formed by her or her husband, or by both of them.