Career
She was born in Gloucester and educated at Cheltenham Ladies College. She was the wife (married 1885), and later widow, of James Allen Harker (1847–1894), professor at the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester. Their sons were Oswald Allen Harker (1886–1968) and Brigade
Arthur William Allen Harker Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1890–1960), and possibly more.