Frances Kyle

A governess, Delphine Ladiray, educated Frances and her sister Kathleen, who subsequently attended Ladies' & Preparatory School.

[4] In January 1920, Frances Kyle and Averil Deverell were admitted as the first female students of law at the King's Inns in Dublin.

Kyle came first in the Bar Entrance Examinations and, in October 1921, she became the first woman to win the John Brooke Scholarship.

A week later, she was called to the newly established Bar of Northern Ireland at the Crumlin Road Courthouse.

[3] By 1952, Kyle was living in London with her sister Kathleen, who was married to a medical inspector, Dr. John McCloy.