For the Lincoln's Inn Society at Harvard Law School see Lincoln's Inn Society.

Coordinates: 51°31′01.65″N 00°06′52.48″W / 51.517125°N 0.1145778°W / 51.517125; -0.1145778

The Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn is one of four Inns of Court in London to which barristers of England and Wales belong and where they are called to the Bar. The other three are Middle Temple, Inner Temple and Gray's Inn. Although Lincoln's Inn is able to trace its official records beyond those of the other three, by tradition, none of the Inns claims to be the oldest of the four. It is believed to be named for Lincoln de Lacy, the third Earl of Lincoln.

Lincoln's Inn is situated in Holborn, in the London Borough of Camden, just on the border with the City of London and the City of Westminster, and across the road from Royal Courts of Justice. The nearest tube station is Chancery Lane.

Contents 1 Architecture 1.1 Gallery 2 Famous members 3 Preachers of Lincoln's Inn 4 Other organisations based in the Inn 5 Notes 6 See also 7 External links

[edit] Architecture

Stone Buildings were designed by Sir Robert Taylor and the Great Hall by the father and son architects, Philip and Philip Charles Hardwick. Another famous architect, Giles Gilbert Scott, also contributed to the Great Hall and it can be clearly seen which part Philip Hardwick wanted to be known for as his initials are shown one side of the building as P.H. - 1843.

[edit] Gallery

East end of the Library

This 1845 banquet in the recently built New Hall was attended by Queen Victoria.

The Great Hall of Lincoln's Inn, 1892, by Herbert Railton

Part of Lincoln's Inn drawn by Thomas Shepherd c.1830.[1]

[edit] Famous members

• Sir Anerood Jugnauth ,President of Mauritius & former prime minister.
• Mohammad Hidayatullah, Chief Justice of India.
• Mirza Hameedullah Beg, Chief Justice of India
• Mohammad Ali Jinnah, founder and first Governor General of Pakistan
• Sir Muhammad Iqbal (Allama Iqbal), Muslim poet, philosopher and politician.
• Makhdoom Ali Khan, former Attorney General of Pakistan
• Sir Muhammad Zafrullah Khan, Foreign Minister of Pakistan,
• William Prynne, 17th century pamphleteer and opponent of Archbishop William Laud
• Lord Denning
• Sir John Fortescue, Lord Chief Justice under King Henry VI of England and jurist
• Sir Thomas More
• Richard Cromwell
• Thomas Langlois Lefroy, Chief Justice of Ireland from 1855 to 1866
• Sir Nicholas Conyngham Tindal, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas
• John Henry Cardinal Newman
• Tony Blair, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• Cherie Blair QC (Known professionally as Cherie Booth QC)
• John Donne
• William Hakewill, M.P., lawyer and antiquary
• Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone, former Lord Chancellor
• Margaret Thatcher, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• William Osgoode, first Chief Justice of Ontario after whom Osgoode Hall (and by proxy Osgoode Hall Law School) was named
• Sir Francis Walsingham
• Martin Lee, Hong Kong politician. Former leader of the Democratic Party.
• Shankar Dayal Sharma, 9th President of The Republic of India
• John Kufuor, President of Ghana from 2001 to 2009.

[edit] Preachers of Lincoln's Inn

The office of Preacher of Lincoln's Inn or Preacher to Lincoln's Inn is a clerical office in the Church of England.[1] Past incumbents include:

• John Donne
• William Warburton
• Henry Wace[2]
• Derek Watson
• Edward Maltby

[edit] Other organisations based in the Inn

• 68 Signal Squadron

[edit] Notes

[edit] See also

• Lincoln's Inn Fields

[edit] External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Lincoln's Inn

• Lincoln's Inn website

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