Beatrice was born in Glasgow on the 28th March 1902 to Mary Adlington and Edwin Robert Jones. When her father registered the birth he described his occupation as a foreign correspondent but when she matriculated at Glasgow University in 1923 to begin her studies in the Law Faculty Beatrice recorded that he was a sales manager. She passed her exams, not always with ease, though she earned a second class certificate in Mercantile Law in the session 1925-26. Beatrice graduated B.L.in 1926. After meeting both the academic and professional requirements for entry into the profession she obtained a practising certificate and worked with the firm of A.Ferguson & T.J.&T.Brown where she was one of the very few women in Scotland to become a partner. She was also a member of the Faculty of Procurators. Beatrice Jones died in Glasgow in 1988, aged 86.
Sources
GU Registry, General Council
Law List (1940)
Scotland’s People
CoSS Petitions List CS46 1927/8/6
