Emily Overend Lorimer

Emily Overend Lorimer (1881-1949) was a British correspondent and political analyst, at first influential through her husband, David Lockhart Robertson Lorimer, British resident in Cairo during the First World War and Arab Revolt, later in roles where she had the relevant post. She had been tutor in Germanic Philology at Somerville College, Oxford University 1907-10 before her marriage. Even in 1916-1917, and edited the Basrah Times in what was to become modern Iraq. David Lockhart "Lock" Lorimer was Political Representative in Cairo.

Emily Lawrence, as opposed to Gertrude Bell, fiercely opposed Arab independence, "at least before British civilisation had been extensively spread within the territories, and thought that the punitive expeditions to repress Arab nationalism were highly justifiable."

She subsequently received the Order of the British Empire, was a correspondent in Kashmir for the London Times, and was a Postal Censor for Britain's Ministry of Information, resigning in June 1940.