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Her Name Is Carol

* Carol Ann Duffy

..... Britain's FIRST female Poet Laureate when appointed in May 2009 and also the FIRST Scot to take the role. The Poet Laureate is appointed by the Queen on the advice of the government and is tasked with writing poems to commemorate major state occasions and royal events  ( Did she later resign??)

* Carol Edwards

..... one of the FIRST 32 women ordained at Bristol Cathedral into the Anglican Church in 1994

* Carol Frost

..... English woman, born in Manchester, who was the FIRST woman councillor and alderman of Alice Springs in October 1989

* Carol Graham

   born 1898 died 1989

..... FIRST general secretary of the Women's Fellowship in the United Church. She devoted herself to 36 years of missionary work in India and was founder of the Order of Sisters in the Church of South India in 1952. On her return to England she founded the Farncombe Community in England, a community which was an order of women dedicated to prayer and work for Christian unity

* Carol Harrison

..... FIRST woman to serve at the fire station in Kingsland, Hackney, London in May 1991 when she spent a year there on probation

* Carol and Sarah Hunt

..... FIRST twins to swim the English Channel together which they did on 8th March 1988 in a time of 9hrs and 28mins. They were aged 25 years, were teachers and came from Ripley In Derbyshire

* Carol Mutter

..... American who was the FIRST woman three-star General in the Marine's in July 1996. When she had joined the US Marine Corps thirty years earlier women were not allowed to be generals

* Carol Robson

..... FIRST British woman diplomat to be expelled from Moscow when she was among three Britons expelled. All denied charges of having been engaged in "improper activities"

* Carol Smithies

..... FIRST woman member of Manchester's Rucksack Club after it had been a men-only club for 88 years. She was later chosen to lead a camp on the bouldery summit of Scafell Pike, England's highest mountain

* Carol Sumner

..... FIRST woman 4 wheel driving instructor in Great Britain