Gray's Inn

Estimates of the pilgrim army run from around 30,000 up to 40,000 people, and it's the biggest rebellion of Henry's whole reign.

The leader is Robert Aske, and he's a barrister from Gray's Inn.

He's a lawyer.

He isn't some wild-eyed firebrand.

Certainly an Englishman, it was more doubtful whether Phileas Fogg was a Londoner.

He was never seen on 'Change, nor at the Bank, nor in the counting-rooms of the "City"; no ships ever came into London docks of which he was the owner; he had no public employment; he had never been entered at any of the Inns of Court, either at the Temple, or Lincoln's Inn, or Gray's Inn; nor had his voice ever resounded in the Court of Chancery, or in the Exchequer, or the Queen's Branch, or the Ecclesiastical Courts.

He certainly was not a manufacturer; nor was he a merchant or a gentleman farmer.

His name was strange to the scientific and learned societies, and he never was known to take part in the sage deliberations of the Royal Institution or the London Institution, the Artisan's Association, or the Institution of Arts and Sciences.

As a young man, Henry was sent to London to study under the non-conformist minister Thomas Doolittle.

Later, he entered Gray's Inn to study law.

Although he was preparing for a legal career, his heart was increasingly drawn toward the ministry.

In 1686, he began preaching, and his preaching was well received.

You'll discover how she found herself on the way to the bar instead.

You'll also discover her career path since she made that decision, including the route to being appointed King's Counsel, and how she became a bencher of Gray's Inn, one of the four historic Inns of Court that train barristers in England and Wales, and why Denise feels careers in law need a greater focus on social mobility, inclusion, and representation for women, even in 2026.

She began her interview by telling me about her very early days of her career in the law.

When I started out 26 years ago, I did absolutely everything I was given by the clerks.

What, what would be advice that you would give to somebody who wants to enter the law now, like tomorrow, you know? You are hugely passionate about social mobility, aren't you?

Yes, I am.

And I often go to training events and mentoring events for young people at universities, and we do quite a bit of outreach work in chambers and at Gray's Inn.

My top tips, I think, would be really, if you're interested in a career at the bar, go to court and watch some advocacy.

He was much loved as a pastoral bishop, with a deep commitment to encouraging the young.

He used to walk with those lodging at Gray's Inn on a Sunday afternoon and talk to them about the text of the day and then move on to life, the universe and everything.

He died close by to us here at Winchester Palace in 1626 and was buried in the parish churches of Mary Overy, at that time a northern outpost of his Diocese of Winchester, but now of course our own Southwark Cathedral.

So that's very much a gallop through his life and times.

"I've only asked a few," she explained as she led Joan into the restful white paneled sitting room that looked out upon the gardens.

Madge shared a set of chambers in Gray's Inn with her brother, who was an actor.

"But I have chosen them with care." Joan murmured her thanks.

"I haven't asked any men," she added as she fixed Joan in an easy chair before the fire.

He published an out-of-the-way Latin writer, Martianus Capella, with a learned commentary, and he was the correspondent of De Thou.

When Bacon was hardly sixteen, he was admitted to the Society of Ancients of Gray's Inn, and he went in the household of Sir Amias Paulet, the Queen's ambassador to France.

He thus spent two years in France, not in Paris alone, but at Blois, Tours, and Poitiers.

If this was precocious, there is no indication that it was thought precocious.

And this was not the worst.

To make up for the loss of that start in life of which his father's untimely death had deprived him, he became, for almost the rest of his life, the most importunate and most untiring of suitors.

In 1579 or 1580, Bacon took up his abode at Gray's Inn, which for a long time was his home.

He went through the various steps of his profession.

No ships ever came into London docks of which he was the owner.

He had no public employment; he had never been entered at any of the Inns of Court, either at the Temple, or Lincoln's Inn, or Gray's Inn, nor had his voice ever resounded in the Court of Chancery, or in the Exchequer, or the Queen's Branch, or the Ecclesiastical Courts.

He certainly was not a manufacturer; nor was he a merchant or a gentleman farmer.

His name was strange to the scientific and learned societies, and he never was known to take part in the sage deliberations of the Royal Institution, or the London Institution, the Artisan's Association, or the Institution of Arts and Sciences.

Dingley was sent to London at some stage, I don't know what age, where he was educated by James Shirley, the poet and playwright.

Subsequently, he went to Gray's Inn in 1670 to study law, and he still signs himself as being of Gray's Inn by 1683.

Now, the question is, why did he come to Warlet? Well, essentially, he came over to, as far as I'm concerned, to do a survey.

of the Thomond O'Brien estates.