She was a trailblazing lawyer who became one of the first female senior partners at a major London law firm.
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| Ruth, Lady Morris of Kenwood. |
She was born in 1932, as Ruth Joan Gertrude Rahle Janner, daughter of the former MP Barnett Janner, a life peer as Baron Janner (1892-1992), and his wife the former Elsie Sybil Cohen, CBE (who died 1994).
She was a sister of the politician Greville Janner, later a life peer as Baron Janner of Braunstone (1928-2015).
Ruth, Lady Morris of Kenwood was well known for her charity work, including her roles as a trustee of the Jewish Youth Fund and a patron of the Jewish AIDS trust. She also served as President of the Habonim Dror youth group; she received a CBE in 2014 for her services to the community.
After having been evacuated to Canada during the war by her parents, who feared that the Nazis were going to invade Britain, she subsequently returned to the UK, entering the legal profession and joining her family’s law firm, which subsequently merged with another firm. In an interview a decade ago, she described being made a senior partner, “but they wouldn’t call me Senior Partner, they would only call me Chairman of Partners, because I was a woman.”
She married 9 September, 1958, Philip Geoffrey Morris the 2nd Baron Morris of Kenwood (born 18 June, 1928), son of the 1st Baron Morris of Kenwood (1893-1954), and his wife the former Florence Isaacs (who died 1982).
Her husband died 2 December, 2004, aged 76.
Ruth Morris leaves issue, a son, Jonathan, 3rd Baron Morris of Kenwood (born 5 August, 1968), and tehree daughters, Diane (born 25 Jan, 1960), Caroline (born 23 Apr, 1961), and Linda (born 28 Apr, 1965).
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