My aunt, Mona Warren, who has died aged 94, recently recalled how, when she was the only female solicitor in Cornwall during the early 1960s, those addressing Cornwall Law Society meetings would begin: “Gentlemen and Miss Warren”.
After ill-health prevented her completing a chemistry degree at the University College of South West of England (now the University of Exeter) in the 40s, she learned shorthand working at the Methodist Missionary Society in London before becoming an articled clerk in St Buryan, Cornwall, where she lived, and subsequently a solicitor in Penzance.
