Carrie Morrison

Carol Morrison (3 February 1888 – 20 February 1950) was the first woman to be admitted as a solicitor in England.[1][2][3]

She was born in Richmond, Surrey to Thomas Morrison, who worked as a metal broker in Spain and was a company director, and Judith Wakefield Morrison.[4] She graduated from Girton College, Cambridge with First Class Honours, but she was not allowed a degree because she was a woman.[3]

In 1922 she and Mary Pickup, Mary Sykes, and Maud Crofts became the first women in England to qualify as solicitors; Morrison was the first of them to finish her articles, and was the first woman admitted to the role of solicitor.[3] In 1927, she married fellow solicitor Ambrose Erle Fuller Appelbe, who founded a firm in London that is still active. They later divorced, but she continued to work with him professionally, and worked until her death in Hertford, age 62.[5]

She was also a Soroptimist.[6]

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References

  1. ↑ Bürocratik - www.burocratik.com. "Outdated Browser". first100years.org.uk. Retrieved 2016-05-13.
  2. ↑ Mary Jane Mossman (31 May 2006). The First Women Lawyers: A Comparative Study of Gender, Law and the Legal Professions. Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 118–. ISBN 978-1-84731-095-8.
  3. 1 2 3 "BBC News | UK | 75 years of women solicitors". news.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2016-05-13.
  4. ↑ Girton College Register: 1869-1946. Girton College, Cambridge. 1948. p. 187. Retrieved 9 July 2017.
  5. ↑ England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966, 1973-1995
  6. ↑ "Mary Elizabeth Pickup". first100years.org.uk.
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