Combined coat of arms of the four Inns of Court. The Inner Temple's arms are at bottom-left

Inner Temple Library, 1892, by Herbert Railton

Inner Temple Gardens

Crown Office Row

The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple is one of the four Inns of Court around the Royal Courts of Justice in London which may call members to the Bar and so entitle them to practise as barristers. The Inns of Court in London are the professional associations to one of which every barrister in England and Wales (and those judges who were formerly barristers See also the Royal Courts of Justice Belfast. The Royal Courts of Justice, commonly called the Law Courts, is the building in London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. A bar association is a Professional body of Lawyers Some bar associations are responsible for the regulation of the legal profession in their Jurisdiction A barrister is a Lawyer found in many Common law Jurisdictions that employ a split profession (as opposed to a Fused profession) in relation (The other Inns are Middle Temple, Gray's Inn and Lincoln's Inn. The Honourable Society of the Middle Temple is one of the four Inns of Court exclusively entitled to call their members to the English Bar as Barristers The Honourable Society of Gray's Inn is one of the four Inns of Court around the Royal Courts 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 )

The Temple was occupied in the twelfth century by the Knights Templar, who gave the area its name, and built the Temple Church which survives as the parish church of the Inner Temple and Middle Temple. The Temple can refer to two of the four Inns of Court in London: Inner Temple and Middle Temple. The Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon (Pauperes commilitones Christi Templique Solomonici commonly known as the Knights Templar or the Order The Temple Church is a late 12th century church in London located between Fleet Street and the River Thames, built for and by the Knights The Inner Temple was first recorded as being used for legal purposes when lawyers' residences were burned down in Wat Tyler's revolt. Walter Tyler, commonly known as Wat Tyler ( January 4, 1341 – June 15, 1381) was the leader of the English Peasants' It is an independent extra-parochial area, historically not governed by the City of London Corporation (although geographically within the boundaries and liberties of the City of London) and equally outside the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Bishop of London. In the United Kingdom, an extra-parochial area was an area considered to be outside any Parish. The City of London Corporation (formerly known as the Corporation of London)is the municipal governing body of the City of London. For London as a whole see the main article London. The City of London is a geographically Ecclesiastical jurisdiction in its primary sense does not signify Jurisdiction over ecclesiastics ("church leadership" but jurisdiction exercised by church leaders The Bishop of London is the Ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of London in the Province of Canterbury.

The Inn suffered heavily from wartime bombing between September 1940 and May 1941, because of its proximity to the Thames. The Blitz was the sustained bombing of Britain by Nazi Germany between 7 September 1940 and 10 May 1941 in World War II. Year 1940 ( MCMXL) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full 1940 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1941 ( MCMXLI) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (the link will display 1941 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Thames ( is a major River flowing through southern England. The buildings destroyed included the Library and the Hall although others, such as 2 King's Bench Walk, were fortunate to survive. 2 King's Bench Walk is a Grade I Listed building that houses Barristers ' chambers in the Inner Temple, Central London.

The oldest surviving buildings in the Inner Temple date from the seventeenth century and are on King's Bench Walk (named after the King's Bench Office which was there until the nineteenth century), though the first storey of the Knights Templars' medieval buttery (where food was served) survives as part of the larger building that contains the rebuilt Inner Temple Hall. In the Middle Ages, a buttery was a storeroom for Liquor, the name being derived from the Latin and French words for Bottle or to Many other parts of the Inn are Victorian. Culture The Victorian fascination with novelty resulted in a deep interest in the relationship between modernity and cultural continuities

The Temple is often used as a location for both television and cinema. Television ( TV) is a widely used Telecommunication medium for sending ( Broadcasting) and receiving moving Images, either monochromatic

Inner Temple is also one of the few remaining liberties, an old name for a geographic division. A Liberty was a local government unit in England. Originating in the Middle Ages, liberties were areas of widely variable extent which were independent of the usual Middle Temple is another. The Honourable Society of the Middle Temple is one of the four Inns of Court exclusively entitled to call their members to the English Bar as Barristers

Famous members

• Baron Henry de Worms, First Lord of Pirbright
• Geoffrey Chaucer (reputed)
• Cecil Rhodes
• Bram Stoker
• Mohandas Gandhi
• John Maynard Keynes
• Clement Atlee
• Jawaharlal Nehru
• Thomas de Littleton
• William Catesby
• Sir Edward Coke
• Sir Francis Drake
• Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester
• Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex
• Christopher Hatton
• Sir Ernest de Silva
• 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
• Francis William Reitz, president of the Orange Free State
• 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
• Sir Albert Margai, second Prime Minister of Sierra Leone
• Michael Howard
• John Mortimer (whose best-known creation, Horace Rumpole, was also an Inner Templar)
• Richard Searby
• Thomas Willing
• Musa Alami
• Tuanku Abdul Rahman ibni Almarhum Tuanku Muhammad
• Tunku Abdul Rahman
• Sir Nicholas Slanning
• Roger Ludlow

External links

• Inner Temple website

• 2008 Temple Festival website

• Inner Temple Banqueting website

Coordinates: 51°30′49″N 0°06′40″W / 51.51361, -0.11111