Cornelia Sorabji
Lawyer, Author
1866 – 1954
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Who was Cornelia Sorabji?
Cornelia Sorabji was the first female advocate from India when admitted to Allahabad High Court. She was the first female graduate from Bombay University, and in 1889 became the first woman to read law at Oxford University, and also the first Indian national to study at any British university. Later she became the first woman to practise law in India and Britain. In 2012, her bust was unveiled at Lincoln's Inn, London.
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