What is Inner Temple?
[[Image:London-Inns-of-Court.JPG|thumb|300px|right|Combined coat of arms of the four Inns of Court. The Inner Temple's arms are at bottom-left]] [[Image:Inner_Temple_Gardens.jpg|thumb|300px|right|Inner Temple Gardens]] '''The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple''' is one of the four [[Inns of Court]] around the [[Royal Courts of Justice]] in [[London]]. They may call members to the [[Bar association|Bar]] and allow them to practice as [[barrister]]s. (The other Inns are [[Middle Temple]], [[Gray's Inn]] and [[Lincoln's Inn]].) The Inner Temple was first recorded as being used for legal purposes when lawyers' houses were burned down in [[Wat Tyler]]'s revolt in 1381. Before that date, the Temple was occupied by the [[Knights Templar]]. The Inner Temple was damaged during the wartime bombings in the areas surrounding the [[River Thames]]. ==Famous members== *[[Geoffrey Chaucer]] (reputed) *[[Thomas de Littleton]] *[[William Catesby]] *[[Sir Edward Coke]] *[[Sir Francis Drake]] *[[Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester]] *[[Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex]] *[[Christopher Hatton]] *[[Thomas Morton (colonist)|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]] *[[Bram Stoker]] *[[Mohandas Gandhi]] (called 1891, disbarred 1922, reinstated 1988) *[[John Maynard Keynes]] *[[Clement Attlee]] *[[Jawaharlal Nehru]] *[[Mohammed Ali Jinnah]] *[[Cecil Rhodes]] *[[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 (politician)|Jack Straw]] *[[Michael Howard]] *[[John Mortimer]] (whose best-known creation, [[Horace Rumpole]], was also an Inner Templar) *[[R