it also marks the beginning of the modern bar, founded on the relationship between the two learned societies, their property in the inns and the barristers who lived and worked there. the inner and middle temple are two of the four inns of court to which english barristers must belong before they can be called to the english bar. over the years, there have also been many barristers called to the english bar by the two inns who have subsequently gone to practice in other parts of the world; some have become statesmen. mahatma gandhi is perhaps the best known of all.