Hannah Cross

Hannah Cross (25 April 1908 – 19 January 2008) was an English barrister. She was the first woman to become a member of the General Council of the Bar serving from 1938 to 1945. Early life Cross was the daughter of Francis Cross (died 1950) and his wife Eleanor (née Phillimore) (died 1949). Her father was a barrister and her maternal grandfather was the judge Walter Phillimore, 1st Baron Phillimore. Her brother, Michael, served in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve and married a great-granddaughter of Augustus Edward Hobart-Hampden, 6th Earl of Buckinghamshire. She was educated at Downe House School in Berkshire. She graduated St Hilda's College, Oxford with a BA First Class in Philosophy, Politics and Economics in 1929. Career She was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1931 and became a tenant at 1 New Square Chambers.