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19 unusual facts about Inner Temple


A Scandal in Bohemia

He discovers from the local stable workers that Adler has a gentleman friend, the lawyer Godfrey Norton of the Inner Temple, who calls at least once a day.

Charles Gurdon

Gurdon chose to enter the legal profession and was admitted to the Inner Temple in 1877.

Charles Touzel

On 2 December 1886 he was admitted to the Inner Temple, though by 1888 he was a captain in the 3rd Battalion of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers.

Collier Cudmore

Cudmore studied law at the Inner Temple and was called to the bar in 1910, then returned to Australia and formed a partnership with Stanley Murray.

Felix Dias Bandaranaike

She is a graduate of the University of Ceylon and (lawyer) later became a member of Inner Temple and had a daughter Christine she is the only child.The family lived in the historic Maha Nuge Gardens in Colombo.

Francis Mugliston

After leaving Cambridge, he studied law and was called as a barrister to the Inner Temple in 1911; instead of practising law, however, he joined the Sudan civil service, though he was soon invalided home after catching dysentery.

Frederick de St Croix Brecken

He was educated in Charlottetown and then articled in law with Robert Hodgson, continuing his studied at Lincoln's Inn and the Inner Temple in London.

George Alfred Lawrence

He was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1852, but soon abandoned the law for literature.

George Markham Giffard

Giffard entered the Inner Temple, of which he eventually became a bencher, and was called to the bar in November 1840.

Guy Rutledge

Rutledge continued his studies in London, and was called to the bar by the Inner Temple in 1897.

Harindra Corea

He was then called to the Bar by the Honorable Society of the Inner Temple.

Henry Lukin

Lukin was the only son of barrister-at-law Robert Henry Lukin of the Inner Temple; Henry or Harry Lukin, as he was usually known, had a sister two years younger and lost his mother when sixteen years old.

Hughes of Gwerclas

He contributed to antiquarian debate and was employed as a barrister at the Inner Temple.

John Moland

He studied law at the Inner Temple, where his name was recorded as John Morland and a note says that he was commissioned King’s Attorney in Pennsylvania.

Khushwant Singh

He was educated at Modern School, New Delhi, Government College, Lahore, St. Stephen's College in Delhi and King's College London, before reading for the Bar at the Inner Temple.

Koen Lenaerts

He was made an Honorary Master of the Bench of the Inner Temple, London, in 2010.

Richard Searby

He was awarded a BA Lit Hum (Hons) and an MA from Oxford University in 1954 (as well as a sports blue for tennis) and was then admitted to the Inner Temple.

Rowland Jones

He married a young Welsh heiress, and was enrolled as a member of the Inner Temple 26 October 1751.

Taverner's Bible

This was, in fact, what would now be called "piracy," being Grafton's Matthew Bible revised by Taverner, a learned member of the Inner Temple and famous Greek scholar.


Edward Middleton Barry

Among the projects jointly attributed to them are new chambers at Inner Temple, London (completed in 1879), and the design of the Great Eastern Hotel at London’s Liverpool Street station, completed in 1884, after Edward's death.

Herbert Mackworth

He was the son of Sir Humphrey Mackworth of Gnoll, Glamorganshire, MP for Cardiganshire and was educated at Westminster School, Magdalen College, Oxford and the Inner Temple.

Johannes Brand

He continued his law studies in Britain and was called to the English bar at the Inner Temple in 1849.

Phillip Knightley

He has lectured on journalism, law, and war at the Australian National Press Club in Canberra, the Australian Senate, City University, London, University of Manchester, Pennsylvania State University, University of California Los Angeles, Stanford University, the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, the Inner Temple, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), and to the University of Düsseldorf.

Sir William Brereton, 1st Baronet

In 1699, a family dispute broke out between these heirs, when Susanna Brereton's daughter Mary, who had married John Levett Esq., a barrister of the Inner Temple, London, petitioned the House of Lords in London on behalf of Edward Ward, 11th Baron Dudley and 3rd Baron Ward, who was an infant when his father died, and whose guardianship had been held by Edward, Earl of Meath, and his wife, who was the aunt of the infant lord.