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unusual facts about Barnard's Inn


Barnard's Inn

By the 17th century, qualified attorneys were allowed to practise from Inns of Chancery as well as Inns of Court.


1982 Barnard Conference on Sexuality

The Barnard Sex Conference was held in 1982 by the Barnard Center for Research on Women, then known as the Women’s Center.

Ambrose Bury

He was educated at the Liverpool Institute, the Royal School in Raphoe, Dublin High School, Trinity College, and the King's Inn in Dublin, from which he received a Bachelor of Arts in 1890 and a Master of Arts in 1893.

Bessie Barnes

Barnes became renowned for producing stage shows in Chicago nightclubs such as Rainbow Gardens, Friar's Inn, and the Rendezvous Café, where she worked with celebrities like Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.

Bettie Cilliers-Barnard

Most recently in 1992 she painted "Vision" for the Pretoria Eye Institute and some of her other commissions including the painting "Flight" for South African Airways, 1983, the tapestry "Guardian Angel of the Arts" for t he State Theatre of Pretoria, 1981, and her mural in oils "Mensa sana corpore sano" for the Department of Health in Pretoria, 1980.

Charles Tilstone Beke

He later studied law at Lincoln's Inn, and for a time practised at the Bar, but finally devoted himself to the study of historical, geographical and ethnographical subjects.

Christopher Layer

Soon after this he quarrelled with his master, went up to London, and qualified himself under Hadley Doyley, an attorney of Furnival's Inn.

Church of St Helen and St Giles

In 1714 Rectory Manor was reunited with Jordans Manor by William Blackborrne of Hornchurch, who left the two manors to Lincoln's Inn barrister Levett Blackborne, grandson of Sir Richard Levett, Lord Mayor of London.

Clio Barnard

Clio Barnard is a reader in the Film Studies Department and director of undergraduate studies at the University of Kent.

Corinthia Hotel Budapest

Just a few examples are Max Reinhardt, Asta Nilsen, Saljapin, Valdemar Psylander, Professor Barnard, Roberto Benzi, Mario del Monaco, Anna Moffo, Renata Scotto, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Amerigo Tot, Valentina Tereskova.

Daniel D. Barnard

Barnard was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh as a U.S. Representative for the tenth district of New York from March 4, 1839 to March 4, 1843.

Dyer Observatory

Barnard would eventually discover 16 comets and the fifth moon of Jupiter, receive the only honorary degree Vanderbilt has ever awarded, and have the on-campus observatory named in his honor.

Edmund Gennings

He and Polydore Plasden were seized by Richard Topcliffe and his officers whilst in the act of saying Mass in the house of Saint Swithun Wells at Gray's Inn in London on 7 November 1591 and was hanged, drawn and quartered outside the same house on 10 December.

Edward Long

He became a law student in 1752 at Gray's Inn, and from 1757 until 1769 he was resident in Jamaica, during which period he explored inside the Riverhead Cave, the Runaway Bay Caves and the Green Grotto.

Elizabeth Janeway

Never a supporter of the Communist Party or even a socialist, she did breathe the progressive air of 1930s New York City; she always laughed as she described how she and a Barnard friend met their physical education requirement by improvising a tap-dance version of The Internationale.

Friars Club

Friar's Inn, a 1920s jazz venue in Chicago, called "Friars Club" in some sources

Furnival's Inn

Furnival's Inn was an area for local government partly in the City of London and partly in Middlesex.

Furnival's Inn was founded about 1383, and was attached to Lincoln's Inn.

George David Gatewood

In the 1960s astronomer Peter van de Kamp claimed that he had discovered a planet orbiting Barnard's Star using astrometry.

George G. Barnard

Barnard became involved in a series of railroad litigations, beginning with the Erie War, when in February 1868 — on the petition of Att.

George Waddington

He had in the meantime published (1822), in conjunction with the Rev. Barnard Hanbury, his Journal of a Visit to some parts of Ethiopia, describing a journey from Wadi Halfa to Meroë and back.

Gurney's Inn

U.S. President Richard Nixon wrote his acceptance speech at the Skippers Cottage.

Hedley Atkins

Sir Hedley John Barnard Atkins KBE (30 December 1905 – 26 November 1983) was the first professor of surgery at Guy's Hospital and President of the Royal College of Surgeons.

Hogan Lovells

Soon after formation, the firm moved to Thavies Inn at Holborn Circus and later to Serjeant's Inn, Fleet Street, before moving to 21 Holborn Viaduct in October 1977.

James Ussher

He became a preacher at Lincoln's Inn early in 1647, and despite his royalist loyalties was protected by his friends in Parliament.

John Barnard

Despite his friendship and good past working relationship with Prost at McLaren, Barnard opted to leave the Maranello based team and join Benetton, seeking a new challenge, and relishing working again for a team based in England where he wouldn't be subject to the Italian press, where failures with his ideas (such as the numerous failures during testing of the semi-automatic gearbox throughout 1988), often made headlines despite being minor in nature.

John Edward Parsons

He was a founding member, and later president, of the New York City Bar Association and played an important role in the Bar’s prosecution of corrupt judges Albert Cardozo, John McCunn, D.P. Ingraham, and George Barnard.

John Rzeznik

"Men of War" - with Steve Morse & Michael Lee Jackson (original version from the Gillan album, Double Trouble) - Gillan's Inn (2006)

John Taylor, Baron Taylor of Warwick

Taylor was called to the bar in 1978, by Gray's Inn, where he was also awarded the Gray's Inn Advocacy Award, and Norman Tapp Memorial Prize for excellence in mooting.

John Vassall

Vassall subsequently changed his surname to Phillips, and worked quietly as an administrator at the British Records Association, and for a firm of solicitors in Gray's Inn.

Judith Shapiro

The inaugural Summit on the Barnard campus drew an audience of more than 1,000 people for a discussion on women’s leadership; panelists included former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno, activist Marian Wright Edelman, and General Claudia Kennedy, the first female three-star general.

Lady Anne Barnard

A chamber in the Castle of Good Hope is known as "Lady Anne Barnard's Ballroom"; a road in the suburb of Newlands, where the Barnards lived, is named "Lady Anne Avenue" and a carved sculpture of her is displayed in the foyer of the civic centre in the neighbouring suburb of Claremont.

London Video Arts

The idea for London Video Arts (LVA) was initiated by David Hall and founded in summer 1976 by a group of video artists including Roger Barnard, David Critchley, Tamara Krikorian, Brian Hoey, Pete Livingstone, Stuart Marshall, Stephen Partridge, John Turpie and Hall.

Louis Nathaniel de Rothschild

In 1946 he married the countess Hildegard Johanna von Auersperg (1895–1981) and lived in East Barnard, Vermont (USA) and England.

Lyon's Inn

Lyon's Inn was a small Inn, with eighty students at its peak during the time of Elizabeth I, and educated people as noted as Sir Edward Coke and John Selden.

Mollie Phillips

She studied Law at Lincoln's Inn but focussed much of her time on figure skating.

Mountague Bernard

Graduating BA in 1842, he took his BCL, was elected Vinerian scholar and fellow, and having read in chambers with Roundell Palmer (afterwards Lord Selborne), was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1846.

Rescued from Paradise

expedition to explore planets found in orbit around Barnard's Star.

Richard Raynsford

Rainsford was one of Sir Matthew Hale's colleagues in the commission which sat at Clifford's Inn between 1667 and 1672, under the Fire of London Disputes Act 1666 to determine the legal questions arising out of the rebuilding of the quarters of London destroyed by the great fire.

Selwyn Lloyd

After this he concentrated on a legal career having been admitted to Gray's Inn in 1926.

Shark Island Challenge

This was so unexpected that some prominent riders missed their heats (Steve Mackenzie, Paul Barnard and Damian King).

Sidney Nelson Crowther

He was the son of Alfred H. Crowther, a solicitor, of Gray's Inn and Mary Crowther.

Sigma Delta Tau

Christy Carlson Romano - (Gamma Tau, Columbia/Barnard) actress on Disney's hit television show "Even Stevens"

Steve Barnard

Having previously drummed for Robbie Williams on the Life Thru a Lens album and tours, Barnard joined Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros after Jed Lynch left.

Thomas Billing

Writing to one Ledam, Billing says : 'I would ye should do well, because ye are a fellow of Gray's Inn, where I was fellow ' (Paston Letters, i. 43, 53), and, according to a Gray's Inn manuscript, he was a reader there.

Thomas Braddell

On 10 June 1859 he was called at Gray's Inn ; in 1862 he resigned the Company's service and went to Singapore, where he commenced practice in partnership with Mr. Abraham Logan, as Logan and Braddell.

Vivian Sobchack

While at Barnard, Sobchack often frequented the nearby legendary Thalia Theater, which offered up a diverse schedule of classic and foreign films.

W. Llewelyn Williams

From journalism, Williams turned to the law, being called to the Bar from Lincoln's Inn in 1897.

William Thomas Shave Daniel

W T S Daniel became a student of Lincoln's Inn on 27 January 1825, was called to the bar on 8 February 1830, became Queen's Counsel on 17 July 1851, and was called to the bench on 3 November 1851.


see also

Worshipful Company of Mercers

The school was most recently based in Barnard's Inn in Holborn, now the home of Gresham College.