Inner Temple

The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple is one of the four Inns of Court around the Royal Courts of Justice in London. They may call members to the Bar and allow them to practice as barristers. (The other Inns are Middle Temple, Gray's Inn and Lincoln's Inn.)

The Inner Temple was first recorded as being used for legal purposes when lawyers' houses were burned down in Wat Tyler's revolt in 1381. Before that date, the Temple was occupied by the Knights Templar. The Inner Temple was damaged during the wartime bombings in the areas surrounding the River Thames.

Famous members

Geoffrey Chaucer (reputed)
Thomas de Littleton
William Catesby
Sir Edward Coke
Sir Francis Drake
Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester
Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex
Christopher Hatton
Thomas Morton, a member of the associated Inn of Chancery Clifford's Inn
William Wycherly
Judge Jeffreys
James Boswell
Samuel Johnson (resided at the Inner Temple for a period, though not a member)
William Paca
Karl Pearson, and his father William Pearson, QC
George Phillippo
Thomas Hughes
William Schwenk Gilbert
Bram Stoker
Mohandas Gandhi (called 1891, disbarred 1922, reinstated 1988)
John Maynard Keynes
Clement Attlee
Jawaharlal Nehru
Mohammed Ali Jinnah
Cecil Rhodes
Ivy Williams, the first female barrister
A.J.P. Taylor
Seretse Khama, president of Botswana (admitted 1946)
Derry Irvine
Lord Woolf
Elizabeth Butler-Sloss
Jack Straw
Michael Howard
John Mortimer (whose best-known creation, Horace Rumpole, was also an Inner Templar)
Richard Searby
Malcolm Bishop
Thomas Willing
Musa Alami
Tuanku Abdul Rahman ibni Almarhum Tuanku Muhammad
Tunku Abdul Rahman
sir edmund anderson chief justice of common pleas

Other websites
Inner Temple website
Inner Temple Banqueting website 

Category:Inns of Court