Isabel Cooper-Oakley

Who was Isabel Cooper-Oakley?

Isabel Cooper-Oakley, was a prominent Theosophist and author.

She was born in Amritsar, India, studied at Cambridge and married Alfred J. Oakley. They then both changed their surname to Cooper-Oakley. Alfred stayed some years at Adyar, India, as an assistant to Henry Steel Olcott. He left to become Registrar of the University of Madras. Sometime in the late 1890s, G.R.S. Mead became her brother-in-law when he married her sister, another prominent Theosophist, Laura Cooper.

Isabel Cooper-Oakley died on March 3, 1914, at Budapest, Hungary.