[1] Her father, Thomas Lewis Ingram, was a barrister and she attended Girton College where she gained a Tennis Blue.

The test case was heard in the Chancery Division in July 1913 by a hostile judge Mr Justice Joyce.

The Solicitors Act 1843 included the sentence, 'every Word importing the Masculine Gender only shall extend and be applied to a Female as well as a Male'.

The British press was mostly in favour and the case helped the campaign for women's admission to the legal profession.

Ingram (then Crofts) was quoted as saying that if women "are 'intellectually incapable' it is carrying chivalry rather too far to refuse to permit them to expose themselves as failures."

[2] Bebb was expected to be the first British woman lawyer but she died giving birth to her second child in 1921.