Ethna Campbell was one of the first hundred women to graduate in Law from the University of Glasgow. She was born in Glasgow on 8thApril 1921. Her father, John, was a commercial traveller. The family had lived in the Denniston area but when Ethna began her law studies in 1938 their home was in Newlands. At the beginning of her course she took time to settle to degree exams but made her way to successful graduation, a B.L. in 1943. She would also have served an apprenticeship in a law firm but didn’t petition to become a solicitor in Scotland. Marriage to William Joseph George Henry Hall took her to Huntingdonshire and to raising Julie, Penelope, Maximilian, Rosemary and Isabella. She died on 17th February 2011.
Sources
University of Glasgow Registry and General Council Records
Scotlands People
Ancestry.co.uk
