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'''Sibyl Enid Vera Munro Morrison''' (18 August 1895 – 29 December 1961) was the first female [[barrister]] in [[New South Wales]], Australia. She graduated LL.B from the [[University of Sydney]]'s law school in 1924.<ref name=PioneerWomen>{{cite web|url= http://www.pioneerwomen.com.au/sistersinlaw.htm|title= SISTERS IN LAW: Women pioneers of the Australian legal profession |
==Early life==
Born at [[Petersham, New South Wales|Petersham]], a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Morrison was the daughter of Charles Henry Victor Emanuel Gibbs, a Victorian-born pastoralist, and his second wife Alexandrina Caroline Elizabeth, née Munro, from [[Parramatta, New South Wales|Parramatta]].
Morrison received her education at Shirley College, [[Edgecliff, New South Wales|Edgecliff]], and the [[Presbyterian Ladies' College, Sydney]] (P.L.C), at [[Croydon, New South Wales|Croydon]].<ref name="PLCStudents">{{cite book| last = McFarlane| first = John| title = The Golden Hope: Presbyterian Ladies' College, Sydney 1888–1988| year = 1988| publisher = P.L.C Council, Presbyterian Ladies' College, Sydney| location = Croydon, NSW| isbn = 978-0-9597340-1-0| pages = 206–265| chapter =Ex-Students}}</ref> She was then a resident in [[The Women's College, University of Sydney|The Women's College]] while studying law at the [[University of Sydney]], where she graduated in 1924.<ref name="AusBio">{{
In 1923, she took a break from her studies to visit Britain, and subsequently married a ranch owner, Charles Carlisle Morrison in London on 1 October of that year. Returning to Sydney, she completed her law course and on 2 June 1924 was admitted to the New South Wales Bar, where she became the first woman to practise.<ref name =AusBio/>
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