What is Lincoln's Inn?
[[Image:London-Inns-of-Court.JPG|thumb|300px|Combined coat of arms of the four Inns of Court. Lincoln's Inn's arms are at top-left]] [[Image:Lincolns Inn 1.jpg|thumb|Library (left) and Bencher's rooms (right)]] '''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 association|Bar]] and allow them to practice as [[lawyer|barrister]]s. (The other Inns are [[Middle Temple]], [[Gray's Inn]] and [[Inner Temple]].) 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