However, Lovelock signed up for a standard five-year term and Watts was on a three-year term, most likely due to Watts already having an undergraduate degree. Lovelock passed her final examination in November 1925, two years after Watts, becoming the 4th woman to become an ACA member.
Ethel Mary Lovelock was born in Stoke Newington in January 1893 and was articled to her father Henry, who had moved to London from Mildenhall in Suffolk. After qualifying she was Clerk to her father's firm, H. Lovelock & Linnett ,of Kern House, Lincoln’s Inn Field, WC2 and remained with the firm for the rest of her career. Lovelock, the firm and its remaining partner, F.B. Linnett, all last appeared in the 1969 List of Members. Lovelock became a Fellow of the Institute in 1960.
In 1939 Lovelock had signed up to the ATS (Auxiliary Territorial Service) as an ‘Ack Ack Girl’ – manning anti-aircraft guns as part of a mixed gender crew. Women were forbidden from operating deadly weapons, so their duties were limited to supporting the men (no loading or firing) with spotting, range-finding and prediction.
Lovelock died in July 1970, at the age of 77.
Even before Lovelock had registered to be a articled clerk with the ICAEW, women had started to sign articles with the Society of Incorporated Accountants and Auditors, the first of these was Hilda Florence Simpson.
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