Elizabeth Coxen

Elizabeth Frances Coxen née Isaac (1825–1906) was an Australian naturalist and meteorologist. Born in Gloucestershire, England, she emigrated to with her family to Sydney, Australia in 1839.[1][2] She was a collector of shells, insects and birds, as was her husband, Charles Coxen, and they donated many specimens to the Queensland Museum, where Elizabeth worked as curator.[3] After her husband's death she became the first female elected a member of the Royal Society of Queensland.[4]

Headstone, 2005
This article is about Elizabeth Frances Coxen (née Isaac). For her sister-in-law and illustrator Elizabeth Gould (nee Coxen), see Elizabeth Gould (illustrator).

Elizabeth Coxen (1825–1906)

She died in Brisbane on 11 August 1906[5][6] and was buried with her husband in the cemetery of Christ Church in Tingalpa. Her friends commissioned a plaque commemorating her at St John the Baptist Anglican Church at Bulimba.[7] She is commemorated in the name of the land snail Spurlingia coxenae (now known as Spurlingia dunkiensis).[1]

References
  1. McKay, Judith; Healy, John M. (2017). "Elizabeth Coxen: pioneer naturalist and the Queensland Museum's first woman curator" (PDF). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum – Nature. 60: 139–160. doi:10.17082/j.2204-1478.60.2017.2017-05.
  2. "Coxen, Elizabeth Frances (1825 - 1906)". Encyclopedia of Australian Science. Retrieved 25 June 2015.
  3. Mather, Patricia (1986). A Time for a Museum: The History of the Queensland Museum 1862-1986. South Brisbane, Australia: Queensland Museum. p. 186. ISBN 0724216456. OCLC 15667855.
  4. Chisholm, A. H. "Coxen, Charles (1809–1876)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre for Biography, Australian National University. Retrieved 25 June 2015.
  5. "Family Notices". The Brisbane Courier. LXIII (15, 161). Queensland, Australia. 15 August 1906. p. 4. Retrieved 3 November 2018 – via National Library of Australia.
  6. Queensland death index
  7. "Elizabeth Coxen". Monument Australia. Retrieved 25 June 2015.


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