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The Honourable Society of the Middle Temple, commonly known simply as Middle Temple, is one of the four Inns of Court entitled to call their members to the English Bar as barristers, the others being the Inner Temple (with which it shares Temple Church), Gray's Inn and Lincoln's Inn.
In 1337 the premises were divided into the Inner Temple, where the lawyers resided, and Middle Temple, which was also occupied by lawyers by 1346. [7] Lincoln's Inn, the largest, is able to trace its official records to 1422. [8] The records of Gray's Inn begin in 1569, but teaching is thought to have begun there in the late-fourteenth century. [9]
The Middle Temple is one of the four Inns of Court exclusively entitled to call their members to the English Bar as barristers. The following notable people were called to the Bar by the Middle Temple.
The Inner Temple is one of the four Inns of Court, [2] along with Gray's Inn, [3] Lincoln's Inn, [4] and the Middle Temple. [5] The Inns are responsible for training, regulating, and selecting barristers within England and Wales, and are the only bodies allowed to call a barrister to the Bar and allow him or her to practice.
(The 'Old Temple' was located in Holborn, roughly where Lincoln's Inn now stands.) [4] In addition to the church, Temple now appears in the names of Inner Temple, Middle Temple, the Temple Bar, and the nearby Temple tube station.
St George's Inn, Strand Inn, and New Inn attached to the Middle Temple, Furnival's Inn and Thavie's Inn attached to Lincoln's Inn, and; Staple Inn and Barnard's Inn attached to Gray's Inn. [3] [11] (An eleventh Inn of Chancery, the Outer Temple, was said to exist by the legal historian John Baker in 2008. [13] This is denied by other writers. [14])
The students instead went to New Inn, and Strand Inn was absorbed into that Inn. Thomas Occleve was said to have studied at Strand Inn. [10] After the destruction of Strand Inn, New Inn was the only Inn of Chancery left attached to the Middle Temple. [11] Noted students included Sir Thomas More, who attended New Inn before going to Lincoln's ...
Combined arms of the four Inns of Court. Clockwise from top left: Lincoln's Inn, Middle Temple, Gray's Inn, Inner Temple. A bencher or Master of the Bench is a senior member of an Inn of Court in England and Wales or the Inns of Court in Northern Ireland, or the Honorable Society of King's Inns in Ireland. Benchers hold office for life once ...