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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 astonomer 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

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]
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]
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

Call Name Noted for Notes
1342 William Skipwith Chief Baron of the Exchequer [16]
1374 William Gascoigne Chief Justice of the King's Bench [17]
1420 William Yelverton Justice of the Court of King's Bench [18]
1430 Thomas Billing Chief Justice of the King's Bench [19]
1438 John Markham Chief Justice of the King's Bench [20]
1448 Thomas Bryan Chief Justice of the Common Pleas [21]
1455 William Hussey Chief Justice of the King's Bench [22]
1461 John Fineux Chief Justice of the King's Bench [23]
1535 John Birch Baron of the Exchequer [24]
1581 James Altham Baron of the Exchequer [24]
1611 Timothy Turner Chief Justice of Chester [25]
1614 John Bankes Chief Justice of the Common Pleas and of the King's Bench [26]
1616 Thomas Bedingfield Justice of the Court of Common Pleas [27]
1625 Thomas Widdrington Chief Baron of the Exchequer [28]
1627 John Bradshaw President of the High Court of Justice for the trial of King Charles I and first Lord President of the Council of State [29]
1627 John Archer Justice of the Court of Common Pleas [30]
1657 John Powell Justice of the Court of Common Pleas and the Court of King's Bench [31]
1651 Robert Baldock Justice of the Court of King's Bench [32]
1663 John Holt Lord Chief Justice [33]
1670 Richard Allibone Justice of the Court of King's Bench [31]
1676 Thomas Bury Chief Baron of the Exchequer [31]
1729 Thomas Clarke Master of the Rolls [34]
1792 John Bayley Justice of the Court of King's Bench and Baron of the Exhequer [35]
1827 James Bacon Vice Chancellor in Bankruptcy and later, by custom, Judge of the High Court of Justice [36]
1879 John Romilly Master of the Rolls [37]
1879 John Ross Lord Chancellor of Ireland [38]
1891 James Atkin Law Lord [39]
1904 Maas Thajoon Akbar Justice of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka, Solicitor General of Sri Lanka [40]
1904 Augustus Uthwatt Lord Justice of Appeal [41]
1907 Malcolm Hilbery Judge of the King's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice [42]
1919 Gilbert Walter King Judge of the British Supreme Court for China [43]
1928 Humphrey Waldock Justice of the International Court of Justice [44]
1937 Colin Sleeman Assistant Judge Advocate General and circuit judge [45]
1946 Elwyn Jones Lord Chancellor [44]
1946 John Vinelott High Court Judge Chancery Division [46]
1954 Yang Ti-liang former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Hong Kong
1956 John Geoffrey Jones former president of the Mental Health Review Tribunal for England and Wales [47]
1959 Gordon Slynn Lord of Appeal in Ordinary [48]
1959 Robin Auld Lord Justice of Appeal [49]
1960 Anthony Campbell Lord Justice of Appeal in Northern Ireland [50]
1961 Mark Potter President of the Family Division [51][52]
1966 Richard Banda Chief Justice of the Malawi High Court, Chief Justice of the Swaziland High Court [53]
1967 Robin Jacob Lord Justice of Appeal [54]
1969 Brenda Hale President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom [55]
1970 Michael Hart Judge of the Chancery Division [56]
1972 Falak Sher Chief Justice of the Lahore High Court, Justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan [57]
1973 Dame Joan Sawyer First female Chief Justice of The Bahamas Supreme Court and then first female President of the Court of Appeal of The Bahamas (retired 2010)
1974 John Sheil Lord Justice of Appeal in Northern Ireland [58]

Politicians

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
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]
1951 Glafcos Clerides Fourth 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]
1975 Vera Baird Solicitor General for England and Wales [88]

Clergy

Call Name Noted for Notes
1520 William Atwater Bishop of Lincoln [2]
1555 Stephen Gardiner Bishop of Winchester [2]
1588 Richard Bancroft Archbishop of Canterbury [89]
1589 Lancelot Andrewes Bishop of Winchester [2]
1592 John Whitgift Archbishop of Canterbury [89]
1615 William Laud Archbishop of Canterbury [89]
1615 Joseph Hall Bishop of Exeter [2]
1622 Thomas Morton Bishop of Lichfield [2]
1623 James Ussher Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland [2]
1635 William Juxon Archbishop of Canterbury [89]
1663 Gilbert Sheldon Archbishop of Canterbury [89]

Other

Call Name Noted for Notes
1599 Eubule Thelwall Principal of Jesus College, Oxford [90]
1602 Simon Archer antiquary [91]
1639 Bartholomew Beale Auditor of the imprests [92]
1669 John Wynne industrialist [93]
1841 Gilbert Abbott à Beckett Humorist and police magistrate [94]
1863 John Lee Astronomer [95]
1882 Arthur William à Beckett Journalist and humorist for Punch [96]
1905 Gurusaday Dutt Civilian
1913 Joseph Ball Intelligence officer with M15 and first Chairman of the Conservative Research Department [97]
1913 Thomas Williams Phillips Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Labour [98]
1929 Sophy Sanger labour law reformer and internationalist
1951 Huw Thomas presenter for ITN News [3]
? John Finnis legal academic and philosopher

Honorary members

Call Name Noted for Notes
1590 John Amy Civil lawyer [99]
1606 Francis Barrington Member of Parliament for Essex [2]
1942 Winston Churchill Prime Minister of the United Kingdom [6][100]
1943 Franklin D. Roosevelt President of the United States [6][100]
2004 Geoffrey Ma Chief Justice of the Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong [6]

See also

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