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.
[2] Her cousin, Naomi Constance Wallace (1891–1980), would be called to the bar at the Middle Temple a year after Deverell, in November 1922.
Growing up in Greystones, she was taught by her governess until she attended the French School, Bray, while socialising with Irish aristocracy at home.
Deverell 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.
[1] In January 1922, Deverell joined the Law Library of the Four Courts, where she was the only woman until the arrival of Mary Dillon-Leetch in June 1923.