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.ref name="bbc"/> 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]