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Normanton was born in London, the daughter of a piano maker. After her father was found dead in a railway tunnel in 1886, her mother began letting rooms in the family home, before moving to Brighton run a grocery and later a boarding house.
In November 1922, she was the second woman to be called to the Bar of England and Wales, following the example set by Ivy Williams in May 1922. There is a Halls of Residence called Normanton at the university in her honour. She read modern history at the University of London, graduating with first class honours, obtained a Scottish Secondary Teachers" Diploma, and held a diploma in French language, literature and history from Dijon University.
She lectured in history at Glasgow University and London University, and began to speak and write about feminist issues.
She spoke at meetings of the Women"s Freedom League and supported the Indian National Congress. Normanton held ambitions to become a barrister from a young age.
An application to become a student at Middle Temple in 1918 was refused, and she lodged a petition with the House of Lords. She reapplied in 1919, within hours of the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Acting 1919 coming into force, and was admitted to Middle Temple.
In 1924, she became the first married British woman to be issued a passport in her maiden name.
She was the second woman to be called to the bar, on 17 November 1922, shortly after Ivy Williams. She was the first woman to obtain a divorce for her client, the first woman to lead the prosecution in a murder trial, and the first woman to conduct a trial in America and to represent cases at the High Court and the Old Bailey. In 1949, along with Rose Heilbron, she was one of the first two women King"s Counsel at the English Bar.
Normanton was a campaigner for women"s rights and women"s suffrage, becoming the first married woman in Britain to have a passport in her maiden name, believing that men and women should keep their money and property separately.
She was also a pacifist, later being a supporter of Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. She campaigned for divorce reform, and was president of the Married Women"s Association until 1952, when the other officials resigned over her memorandum of evidence to the Royal Commission on Divorce, which they regarded as "anti-man". Normanton formed a breakaway body called the Council of Married Women.
She founded the Magna Carta Society. She was a pacifist throughout her life, and demonstrated against the nuclear bomb after the Second World War.
The archives of Helena Normanton are held at The Women"s Library at the Library of the London School of Economics, ref 7HLN.
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