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The Honourable Society of Gray's Inn, commonly known simply as Gray's Inn , is one of the four Inns of Court in London. To be called to the Bar and practise as a barrister in England and Wales , an individual must belong to one of these Inns. The Inn has existed for over 600 years. Its members have included many noted lawyers and judges, such as Francis Bacon ,[1] Lord Slynn , Lord Bingham of Cornhill , Lord Hoffmann , Lord Pannick and others. Outside the Bar and judiciary of England and Wales, members have included the clergy (including five Archbishops of Canterbury ),[2] the industrialist John Wynne , the astronomer John Lee , media figures, such as Huw Thomas ,[3] and members of the Bar and judiciary of other nations, such as Yang Ti-liang (former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Hong Kong ) and Aitzaz Ahsan (former president of the Supreme Court Bar Association of Pakistan ).[4] [5] As well as full members, the Inn also offers honorary membership to particularly distinguished members of society. During the Second World War , for example, both Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill became honorary Benchers , and therefore members.[6] Other than honorary members, this list only contains those individuals who were called to the Bar, not those who simply joined but left before qualifying.
Lawyers [ edit ]
Call
Name
Noted for
Notes
1540
Nicholas Barham
Serjeant-at-Law who investigated and prosecuted the Ridolfi plot
[7]
1583
Thomas Ashe
legal writer and qualified barrister , although he never practised the law
[8]
1585
Henry Finch
legal writer
[9]
1674
William Atwood
Lawyer and writer
[10]
1792
John Bell
Considered the best equity barrister of his age, even though he could "neither read, write, walk, nor talk"
[11]
1922
B. R. Ambedkar
Indian polymath, jurist, economist, politician and social reformer and the father of the Indian Constitution
[12]
1937
Jack Hamson
legal writer and jurist of comparative and common law, President of the International Academy of Comparative Law
[13]
1940
V.T.
Thomas
Indian advocate, jurist and philanthropist.
1959
Christopher Bathurst
English barrister with a successful practice who became a Queen's Counsel in 1978 before inheriting a hereditary peerage and joining the House of Lords
[14]
1961
Samuel Eson Johnson Ecoma
former Chief Judge of Cross River State, Nigeria.
1967
Aitzaz Ahsan
Pakistani advocate, President of the Supreme Court Bar Association of Pakistan
[4]
1967
Michael Mansfield
King's Counsel and head of chambers at Nexus Chambers
1977
Francis Chang-Sam
Seychelles advocate, former Registrar General of Seychelles and Attorney-General of Seychelles. He also headed the secretariat of the Constitution of the Third Republic of Seychelles.
1980
Noor Dean
Fiji Indian lawyer and politician
[15]
1988
Roger Tan Kor Mee
Malaysian advocate & solicitor, former member of the Malaysian Bar Council and now a Water Commissioner of Malaysia.
Judiciary [ edit ]
Politicians [ edit ]
Call
Name
Noted for
Notes
1355
Robert Ashton
Lord Chancellor of Ireland , Lord High Treasurer
[59]
1515
Robert Aske
Politician and rebel who led the Pilgrimage of Grace
[60]
1524
Thomas Cromwell
Chief minister to King Henry VIII of England from 1532 to 1540
[61]
1533
Nicholas Bacon
Lord Keeper of the Great Seal
[62]
1552
Christopher Yelverton
Speaker of the House of Commons
[63]
1554
Thomas Snagge
Speaker of the British House of Commons and Attorney-General for Ireland
[64]
1560
John Brograve
Member of Parliament for Preston , Attorney General of the Duchy of Lancaster
[65]
1565
Edward Bacon
Member of Parliament for Great Yarmouth and Tavistock
[66]
1582
Francis Bacon
Politician and statesman who served as Lord Chancellor and Attorney General
[67]
1617
Nathaniel Bacon
Member of Parliament for Ipswich
[68]
1631
John Cooke
Solicitor General
[69]
1644
Levinus Bennet
Member of Parliament for Cambridgeshire
[70]
1648
William Brodrick
Member of the Sealed Knot , Surveyor General of Ireland, Member of Parliament for Dungarvan in the Irish House of Commons
[71]
1658
William Williams
Solicitor General and Speaker of the House of Commons
[72]
1673
Thomas Allen
Lord Mayor of the City of London
[73]
1682
Alexander Pendarves
Member of Parliament for Penryn , Saltash , Helston , and Launceston
[74]
1718
Hugh Williams
Member of Parliament for Anglesey
[75]
1839
George Hammond Whalley
Member of Parliament for Peterborough
[76]
1871
William Bowen Rowlands
Member of Parliament for Ceredigion
1885
Sidney Webb
Member of Parliament for Seaham , President of the Board of Trade , Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs , Secretary of State for the Colonies , Co-founder London School of Economics
1894
F.E. Smith
Lord Chancellor, Secretary of State for India
[77]
1910
Khabeeruddin Ahmed
Member Bengal Legislative Council
[78]
1922
David Maxwell Fyfe
Solicitor General, Attorney General, Lord Chancellor and Home Secretary
[44]
1922
Hartley Shawcross
Attorney General
[79]
1923
Grantley Herbert Adams
Premier of Barbados
[80]
1924
Ba Maw
Prime Minister of Burma
[81]
1933
Leslie Goonewardene
Sri Lankan independence activist and founder of the nation's first political party, the Lanka Sama Samaja Party . Also served in cabinet post.
[82]
1935
Elwyn Jones
Attorney General, Lord Chancellor
[44]
1944
Emrys Roberts
Member of Parliament for Merioneth
[83]
1948
Noor Hassanali
The first Indo-Trinidadian to hold the office of President of Trinidad and Tobago and was the first Muslim Head of State in the Americas
[84]
1950
Glafcos Clerides
Fourth President of the Republic of Cyprus
[85]
1954
Spyros Kyprianou
Second President of the Republic of Cyprus
[85]
1954
Tassos Papadopoulos
Fifth President of the Republic of Cyprus
[85]
1959
John "Tom" Adams
Premier of Barbados
[86]
1959
Lalith Athulathmudali
Sri Lankan Member of Parliament and Minister of Education
[87]
1974
Roy Roebuck
Member of Parliament
1975
Vera Baird
Solicitor General for England and Wales
[88]
Honorary members [ edit ]
See also [ edit ]
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Further reading [ edit ]