When she and Frances Kyle were called to the bar on 1 November 1921, the admission of two women made international headlines. She was given an exemption from the full requirements because of her service during the war. When the law changed in 1919 to allow women to become barristers, she and Frances Kyle read for the bar at the King's Inns. She joined Trinity’s St John Ambulance VAD unit in 1912 and drove an ambulance in France during the First World War from July to December 1918.

Growing up in Greystones, she was taught by her governess until she attended the French School, Bray, while socialising with Irish aristocracy at home.ĭeverell attended Trinity College, Dublin (TCD), in 1911, a few years after it opened its doors to women in 1904, and was awarded an LLB in 1915.

Her cousin, Naomi Constance Wallace (1891–1980), would be called to the bar at the Middle Temple a year after Deverell, in November 1922. She had a twin brother, William Berenger Statter Deverell (1893–1966), who also became a barrister.

Her father was a solicitor who would become Clerk of the Crown and Peace for County Wicklow, and her mother was the daughter of a London solicitor. Averil Katherine Statter Deverell (2 January 1893 – 11 February 1979) was one of the first two women barristers in all of Great Britain and Ireland.ĭeverell was born on 2 January 1893 in Dublin to William Deverell and Ada Kate Statter Carr.

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