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8 unusual facts about Middle Temple


Bernhard Wise

He was called to the bar of the Middle Temple in April 1883, and in August 1883, he returned to Sydney with his fiancée, Lilian Margaret Baird, whom he married in April 1884.

Counsel's Opinion

Surviving evidence suggests that Counsel's Opinion had a generous budget and relatively high production values for a British film of the early 1930s, with careful attention being paid to elegant and expensive-looking costuming and set design, and special permission being obtained for location filming in London's Middle Temple.

Francis Charles Philips

In 1880 he began the study of law and was called to the bar in 1884 at the Middle Temple.

Lord Colin Campbell

He entered Middle Temple in 1875 and was a lieutenant in the 2nd Argyll Rifle Volunteers.

Sir Valentine Blake, 3rd Baronet

He was admitted to the Middle Temple on 19 July 1628, was knighted on 3 October 1629, and sat in the Parliament of Ireland of 1634–35 as MP either for Tuam or Galway county.

Syed Hasan Imam

After a course of schooling, interrupted frequently by ill-health, he left for England in July 1889 and joined the Middle Temple.

William Drayton, Sr.

Tutored in South Carolina, he completed his education in the Middle Temple, in London, England in 1754.

William Ryves

William entered Middle Temple in 1593 and was called to the Bar in 1600, and was made a bencher of Middle Temple in 1619.


Alfred Lutwyche

Lutwyche was educated at Charterhouse School and at Queens College, Oxford, where he matriculated in 1828 and graduated B.A. in 1832, and subsequently M.A. While still at university, he had decided to pursue a career in law and became a student at the Middle Temple in London.

Gillie Potter

Other than comedy, Englishness was the abiding passion for Potter, being an authority on heraldry, genealogy, and church history, a Knight Templar, a member of the Middle Temple and the Society of Genealogists, a vice-president of the Royal Society of St George and the Society of King Charles the Martyr, as well as for many years parish clerk of the church of St Botolph, Aldgate, London.

John Warrington Rogers

Warrington was the eldest son of the John Warrington Rogers, of London, entered as a student to the Middle Temple in June 1848, and was called to the bar in November 1846.

Richard Thornton Hewitt

He was made OBE in 1945 and a Freeman of the City of London in 1954, and gained further honours later in life from Middle Temple, the Swedish Medical Society, Chelsea College and the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries of London.

Rickman Godlee

Godlee was born at Upton, Essex to a Quaker family, the second son of Rickman Godlee (1804–1871), a barrister at Middle Temple, and Mary Godlee (née Lister), daughter of Joseph Jackson Lister.

Robert Richardson-Gardner

Richardson-Gardner was born in Swansea, Glamorgan, the son of John and Elizabeth Richardson, and was called to the bar at the Middle Temple in 1853, although he did not practice as a barrister.

Sir Arthur Otway, 3rd Baronet

After his time in the military, he began to study law at the Middle Temple, one of London's four Inns of Court; in 1850 he was called to the Bar.


see also

2008 Temple Festival

The 1608 charter imposed a number of conditions on Inner and Middle Temple in order that they retain the freehold in perpetuity: the accommodation and legal training of students, the maintenance of the Temple Church as a place of worship and the provision of lodging for its Master.

Henry Playford

He lived in Arundel Street in London and had a shop near Temple Church 1685–1695 then in Temple Change 1695–1704 and finally in Middle Temple Gate in 1706.

Pamphill

It was built through the will of Roger Gillingham of the Middle Temple, who left property in Bedfordshire, Hackney and Stepney to trustees, in assurance that they would raise £400 for a close next to Pamphill Green.