Lincoln's Inn

The Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn 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 Inner Temple.)

Combined coat of arms of the four Inns of Court. Lincoln's Inn's arms are at top-left

Library (left) and Bencher's rooms (right)

Lincoln's Inn is thought to be the oldest of the four Inns of Court. The history of the Inn can be traced back to 1422, although its actual origins are even older.

It is in Holborn, in the London Borough of Camden, on the border with the City of London and the City of Westminster.

Famous Members

• Lord Denning
• Sir Thomas More
• Richard Cromwell
• Thomas Langlois Lefroy, Chief Justice of Ireland from 1855 to 1866
• Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Founder of Pakistan
• Sir Allama Muhammad Iqbal, Muslim poet, famous for the idea of Pakistan, philosopher, politician, National Poet of Pakistan
• John Henry Cardinal Newman
• Mirza Hameedullah Beg, Chief Justice of India
• Tony Blair, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• Cherie Blair QC (Known professionally as Cherie Booth QC)
• John Donne
• Margaret Thatcher, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• William Osgoode, first Chief Justice of Ontario after whom Osgoode Hall (and therefore Osgoode Hall Law School) was named
• Syed Sajjad Ali Shah, Chief Justice of Pakistan
• Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Prime Minister and President of Pakistan
• John Kofi Agyekum Kufour, President of the Republic of Ghana

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. Past Preachers of Lincoln's Inn include:

• John Donne
• William Warburton
• Henry Wace
• Derek Watson

Other websites

• Lincoln's Inn website
• www.shaw-hardwick.co.uk Archived 2006-08-06 at the Wayback Machine