They were to be able to serve on juries, to be magistrates and solicitors and eventually be called to the Bar. Career ĭuring the time that Llewelyn Davies was in college the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act began its procession through the houses of parliament which would allow women more equality with men in the legal profession. Her brother Roland died in October 1918 in France. She studied law in London University for a year in 1916 when the First world war had created capacity with so many students away fighting. Llewelyn Davies attended Birkenhead High School before going on to St. She had a cousin Winifred Nicholson who was an artist. John Llewelyn Davies, Rector of Christ Church, Marylebone, who was a strong advocate for women's education. Her great aunt Emily Davies was the founder of Girton College in Cambridge, the first college for women. Her father's sister was Margaret Llewelyn Davies and his brother was Arthur Llewelyn Davies. Llewelyn Davies was raised by her father and her mother's sister, Nellie. Her mother died in childbirth when she was four. She was one of three children with brother Roland and sister Mary. Theodora Llewelyn Davies was born in Birkenhead on 18 April 1898 to Maurice Llewelyn Davies and May Roberts. She was the first woman to apply for admission to the British legal profession's Inner Temple in 1920 and one of the first to be admitted in November 1922. Theodora Llewelyn Davies (18 April 1898 – 21 December 1988) was a British barrister and penal reform campaigner.

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