Flos Greig

Grata Flos Matilda Greig (7 November 1880 – 31 December 1958), Scottish-born Australian lawyer, was the first woman to be admitted to practise as a barrister and solicitor in Australia.

She had five sisters and three brothers - Jane Stocks (1872-1939), Janet Lindsay (1874-1950), Clara Puella (1877-1957), James Arthur (1882-1935), Ernest Howard (1884-1972), Hector Maximus (1887-1979) and Stella Fida (1889-1913).

[1] Flos Greig attended school in Dundee, Scotland, before the family moved to Melbourne, Victoria, Australia landing on 20 April 1889, after sailing on the Parramatta.

Evans had been denied admission to the New South Wales Bar after she graduated on the basis of her sex, forcing her to campaign for the rules of practice legislation to be changed to specifically allow women.

[3] In about 1930, Greig moved to the town of Wangaratta in north-east Victoria, where she worked in a firm of solicitors led by Paul McSwiney.