Carrie Morrison

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

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. She studied at Manchester High School for Girls from 1904 to 1907, graduated from Girton College, Cambridge with First Class Honours,  but she was not allowed a degree because she was a woman.

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. In 1927, she married fellow solicitor Ambrose 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.

She was also a Soroptimist.

See also 
 List of first women lawyers by nationality

References 

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