Mary Cathcart Borer (married name Myers; 3 February 1906 â 2 December 1994) was a British writer, screenwriter, playwright, journalist and scientific researcher.
Mary Irene Cathcart Borer was born on 3 February 1906 in Hackney, London to Florence Mary Borer (née Edmonds) and Archibald James Borer, a hospital secretary. Borer was baptised at the Parish Church of St Andrew, Stoke Newington in April 1906.
In 1928, Borer graduated from University College London with a Bachelor of Science. Borer initially worked as a scientific researcher at the then Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, before marrying the Egyptologist Oliver Humphrys Myers in 1935. From 1935–1937, Borer participated in two Egypt Exploration Society excavations directed by Myers at sites in Armant, Kingdom of Egypt (present-day, Egypt). The couple divorced sometime around 1939.
Borer died on 2 December 1994 in St Albans, and was living in the market town of Tring prior to her death.