to study for the bar examinations, and help her husband in his legal practice in Tewkesbury. Bebb was permitted with 51 other Oxford women, to graduate in 1920, then the only woman who had obtained a First Class Degree in Law. A second daughter, Marion, was born on 10 August 1921, but the pregnancy was affected by placenta praevia. The premature baby died on 12 August, and Bebb herself died at a nursing home in Edgbaston on 9 October 1921, shortly before her 32nd birthday. Bebb's funeral took place at Tewkesbury Abbey. Of the four women who had contested the Bebb legal case, only Crofts succeeded in becoming recognised as a lawyer. Nettlefold left law, but went on to become the Deputy Assistant Secretary at the Ministry of Food, the highest Civil Service role held by a woman to that date. Costelloe became a psychoanalyst. Crofts was the first woman solicitor and she became a partner in the law firm of Crofts, Ingram and Wyatt & Co. A century after the passing of the law permitting women to be solicitors, one view is that there 'still work to be done to achieve real equality in law', others recognise 'the valuable work she [Bebb] did during her lifetime has led to nearly a century of women working in the law, bringing greater equality, diversity, and balance to the profession'. Law Society president in 2019, Christina Blacklaws said: “The legal profession owes an enormous debt of gratitude to Gwyneth Bebb and her fellow aspiring female lawyers.” References A feminist pioneer in law: Gwyneth Bebb, the f-word, 6 June 2011 1889 births 1921 deaths British women's rights activists First women admitted to degrees at Oxford Alumni of St Hugh's College, Oxford Officers of the Order of the British Empire Women in law Deaths in childbirth