Averil Deverell, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Averil Deverell

first woman called to the bar in Ireland

Date of Birth: 02-Jan-1893

Date of Death: 11-Feb-1979

Profession: barrister

Nationality: Ireland, Irish Free State

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Averil Deverell (2 January 1893 - 11 February 1979) was one of the first two women barristers in the UK and Ireland.
She was called to the Irish bar at King's Inn on the 1st November 1921, together with Frances Kyle.Deverell was from Greystones and her father was Clerk of the Crown and Peace for County Wicklow.
Averil was awarded a law degree from Trinity College, Dublin in 1915.
She drove an ambulance in France during the first World War before the law changed in 1919 to allow women to become barristers.
When Frances and Averil were called to the bar, they were among the first to be called since the Irish Judiciary had become independent. Deverell was the first woman to appear in the Supreme Court of Ireland and the Court of Criminal Appeal in Ireland, and in 1928 she became the first Irish woman barrister to appear before the Privy Council in London.
Alongside her work at the bar, she bred cairn terriers.