Dame Rose Heilbron Greetings Card
Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:
Dame Rose Heilbron NPG x89692
© National Portrait Gallery, London
by Elliott & Fry
Lawyer and barrister. Heilbron was born in Liverpool, the daughter of a Jewish hotelier who assisted Jews who wanted to emigrate by managing an immigrant-refugee lodging house. She graduated in law from Liverpool University with a first-class honours degree in 1935. She went on to be the first woman to win a scholarship to Gray's Inn (1936) and the first woman to be appointed to silk (1939). She was the King's counsel in England, one of the first two women (the other was Helenal Normanton)... more
Card size: 125mm x 175mm
Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.










