10 Facts About Carrie Morrison

Carol Morrison was the first woman to be admitted as a solicitor in England.

Carrie Morrison went on to graduate in 1910, again with an exhibition, from Girton College, Cambridge with First Class Honours in Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos, but she was not allowed a degree because she was a woman.

On qualification as one of the first female solicitors, in 1922, Carrie Morrison was interviewed by the Dundee Evening Telegraph saying ' Men say the law is too rough and tumble for women, but I have had that in the Permit Office' and complaining that the cost of qualifying was a more significant barrier to women.

In 1922 she and Mary Pickup, Mary Sykes, and Maud Crofts became the first women in England to qualify as solicitors; Carrie Morrison was the first of them to finish her articles, and was the first woman admitted to the role of solicitor, at the Supreme Court of England.

Carrie Morrison's husband went on to found a firm in London that is part of BDB Pitmans.

Carrie Morrison refused to use her married name and petitioned court officials to be refer in court records, to her profession not her marital status.

Carrie Morrison was said to 'set high standard of determination and dedication to her profession for the women who came after her.

Carrie Morrison was said to have taken steps 'to shield her 17-year-old male articled clerk from the details of the more brutal and salacious cases that she dealt with.

Carrie Morrison worked until her death in Broxbourne, Hertford, age 62.

Carrie Morrison is considered a 'trailblazer' in the first century of female lawyers.