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unusual facts about called to the bar



Derek Oulton

He was called to the bar at Gray’s Inn (where he was later a Bencher), and was in private practice as a barrister in Nairobi until 1960, when he joined the Lord Chancellor’s Department.

Edward North, 1st Baron North

He then entered one of the Inns of Court, was called to the bar, and became counsel for the City of London, probably through the influence of Alderman Wilkinson, who had married his sister Joan.

George Markham Giffard

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

John Bede Dalley

Dalley was called to the bar in London in 1901 and practised at Sydney until 1907, when he joined the staff of The Bulletin after becoming deaf from a fall off a horse.

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.

Kenelm Hubert Digby

In 1934 he was called to the Bar and a few days later sailed to Kuching in Sarawak as a newly recruited District Officer to work for Rajah Charles Vyner Brooke, last of the White Rajahs of Sarawak.

Michael Fingleton

In 1973 he was called to the bar, the same year that Dick Spring, Michael McDowell and Adrian Hardiman were also called, although he never practised as a barrister.

Robert Holford Macdowall Bosanquet

He was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn, London but worked mainly tutoring at Oxford, notably for the Natural Science School, and later was Professor of Acoustics at the Royal College of Music.

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.

Thomas Percival Creed

In 1926 he became a district judge and in 1928 was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn.

William Johnstone Ritchie

He was called to the bar of Nova Scotia in 1837 but moved to Saint John, New Brunswick, and was called to the bar of that province the following year.

William Keogh

He went to Dr Huddard's school in Dublin, graduated from the University of Dublin and was called to the Bar in 1840, and became Queen's Counsel 1849.

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.

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.


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Arthur Richmond Atkinson

After studying at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, Atkinson was called to the Bar by Lincoln's Inn in 1887, before returning to New Zealand the same year.

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.

Butler Cole Aspinall

The son of the Reverend James Aspinall, he was born in Liverpool, Merseyside, England in 1830, educated for the law, and was called to the Bar in 1853.

Carmarthen District by-election, 1912

He built a career in south Wales as a journalist before being called to the Bar from Lincoln's Inn in 1897.

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.

Édouard Montpetit

Called to the bar in 1904, Montpetit worked as a lawyer and taught political economy before he obtained a scholarship in 1907, which made him the first holder of such a scholarship to be officially sent by the province of Quebec to Paris.

Forner

Juan Bautista Pablo Forner, (1756–1799), Spanish satirist and scholar, called to the bar at Madrid in 1783

Francis Charles Philips

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

Francis Forcer the Younger

He had been sent to Oxford, entered Gray's Inn on 8 July 1696, and was called to the bar in 1703.

Frederick John French

French studied law in Ottawa and Toronto, was called to the bar in 1870 and set up practice in Prescott, also working in Ottawa.

Geoffrey Malcolm Gathorne-Hardy

Called to the Bar in 1903, he was in Norway in 1905, when the country gained independence, and he learned Norwegian as well as some Danish and Icelandic.

George Alfred Lawrence

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

George Boyle Hanna

Born in Ballymena, County Antrim and educated at Gracehill Academy, Ballymena Academy and Trinity College, Dublin, Hanna was first admitted as a solicitor in 1901, being called to the Bar in 1920, taking silk in 1933.

George Hudson

Their four surviving children were: George, who was called to the bar and became an inspector of factories; John, who entered the army and was killed in the Indian Mutiny; William, who became a doctor; and Anne, who married a Polish count, Michał Hieronim Leszczyc-Sumiński.

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 Ballow

According to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, he was probably born on 3 May 1704 in Westminster; educated at Magdalene College, Cambridge, admitted to Lincoln's Inn on 27 January 1721, and called to the bar on 6 November 1728.

Henry George Carroll

Born in Kamouraska, Canada East, Carroll studied law at Laval University, was called to the bar in 1889, and was created a Queen's Counsel in 1899.

Johan Steyn, Baron Steyn

He was called to the Bar in South Africa in 1958 and appointed senior counsel of the Supreme Court of South Africa in 1970.

John Creaney

Creaney was a pupil of Basil Kelly and began his legal career in 1957, after being called to the Bar.

John Rose Holden

After being called to the bar, he entered a partnership with Richard Oliver Duggan (for whom Whitehern was built) in Hamilton, enjoying a lucrative practice.

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.

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.

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 James Stuart, 1st Baronet

He studied at King's College in Windsor, Nova Scotia and then apprenticed in law in Lower Canada with John Reid and then Jonathan Sewell; he was called to the bar in 1801.

Sujata Manohar

After Oxford, she was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn having simultaneously passed all papers in Parts 1 & 2 of the Bar Exam.

Sydney Shillington

Called to the Bar in 1923, he practiced as a barrister before becoming resident magistrate and acting judge at Rabaul in Papua New Guinea in 1926.

Thomas Chapais

Born in Saint-Denis, Quebec (then Canada East), the son of Jean-Charles Chapais, a Father of Canadian Confederation, and Henriette-Georgina Dionne, he received a Bachelor's degree in 1876 from Université Laval and was called to the Bar of Quebec in 1879.

Timothy Turner

He was a member of Staple Inn and then joined Gray's Inn on 8 March 1607, being called to the bar on 30 October 1611.

W. Llewelyn Williams

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

Wilfred Judson

In 1923 he emigrated to Canada and graduated from Osgoode Hall Law School and was called to the bar in 1932.

William End

End set up practice at Saint John as an attorney, was called to the bar in 1825 and moved to Newcastle.

William Garvie

In 1866, Garvie retired from the paper, studied law at Lincoln's Inn and was called to the bar there in 1869.

William John Hanna

He then studied law at Osgoode Hall in Toronto, Ontario, and was called to the bar in 1890 and set up practice in Sarnia.

William Moule

Moule resided at Clarence House now known as the old Mansion nightclub in 1876 whilst being educated at Melbourne Grammar School and took a law degree at Melbourne University, being called to the bar in 1879 and going into practice the following year.