List of members of Middle Temple
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.
Living members
- Boris Johnson, Mayor of London, called as an Honorary Bencher on 3rd November 2011
- Clive Anderson, television presenter
- Simon Brown, Baron Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood, Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
- Igor Judge, Baron Judge, Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales
- Jonathan Mance, Baron Mance, Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
- Shami Chakrabarti, Director of Liberty
- Patricia Scotland, Attorney General for England and Wales (until 2010)
- Nicholas Phillips, Baron Phillips of Worth Matravers, President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
- Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, called to the Bar and made an honorary Bencher in 2009
- Geoffrey Howe, senior member of the British Cabinet 1979–1990
- John Rutter, musician, made an honorary Bencher in 2008
- Sir John Major, honorary Bencher, Prime Minister 1990–1997
- Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, Former Foreign Minister and Attorney General of Ghana
- David Cameron, honorary Bencher, current Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- Anthony Clarke, Baron Clarke of Stone-cum-Ebony, Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
- Keir Starmer, Director of Public Prosecutions (England and Wales)[1]
- Lee Kuan Yew, Minister Mentor of Singapore
- Anand Ramlogan, human rights attorney
- Kemal Bokhary, Justice of the Court of Final Appeal, Hong Kong[2]
- Somnath Chatterjee, Speaker of the Lok Sabha of India
- Mark Rylance, honorary Bencher, awarded in acknowledgement of his 400th anniversary production of Twelfth Night mounted in Hall on 2 February 2002.[3]
- Paul Jenkins (lawyer), Treasury Solicitor
- Wong Yan Lung, Hong Kong Secretary for Justice[2]
- Andrew Li, first Chief Justice of the Court of FInal Appeal, Hong Kong[2]
Deceased members
- Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel First Home Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of India.
- Peter Ala Adjetey, Speaker of the Parliament of Ghana (2001–2005).
- Edward Akufo-Addo, Chief Justice of Ghana (1966–1970) and President of Ghana (1970–1972)
- Fred Apaloo, Chief Justice of Ghana (1977 -1986) and later Kenya (1993–1995).
- Jyoti Basu, Chief Minister of West Bengal 1977–2000
- William Blackstone, jurist and author of Commentaries on the Laws of England
- Brajendranath De, esq., ICS, Magistrate and Collector, Hooghly and Commissioner (offg.), Burdwan, Bengal[4]
- John Dickinson (delegate), American founding father
- Romesh Dutt, ICS, Dewan of Baroda and Commissioner of Orissa
- Sir Andrew Fraser, Lieutanant Governor of Bengal
- Behari Lal Gupta, esq., ICS, Dewan of Baroda and first Indian Chief Presidency Magistrate of Calcutta
- Sir Krishna Govinda Gupta, ICS, Member of the Secretary of State's (for India) Council and Commissioner of Burdwan in Bengal
- John Turner Hopwood, Liberal Party MP
- V.K. Krishna Menon, Indian nationalist, diplomat, and Defence Minister; cofounder of Penguin and Pelican Books.
- John Marston (1576–1634), poet, playwright and satirist
- Chief Remi Fani-Kayode, the Deputy Premier of Nigeria's Western Region (1963–1966) and the Minister of Chieftaincy and Local Government Affairs for the Western Region (1963–1966).
- C. R. Pattabhiraman (1906–2001), Indian lawyer, politician and Union Minister. Eldest son of Sir C. P. Ramaswami Iyer.
- K. M. Panikkar, Indian Ambassador to China
- G.P. Pillai, one of the earliest practising advocates of the High Court of Madras
- Sir Lynden Pindling (1930–2000), First black premier of the Colony of the Bahama Islands from 1967 to 1969 and then first Prime Minister of The Commonwealth of The Bahamas from 1969 to 1992.
- Sir Edmund Plowden, (1518–1585), distinguished English lawyer, legal scholar and theorist during the late Tudor period.
- Walter Raleigh, Governor of Jersey
- Raja Sir Maharaj Singh, First Indian Governor of Bombay
- Sir Charles Scarborough, physician to King Charles II and later King James II; King William III and Queen Mary II; and Prince George of Denmark
- John Webster, playwright
- Kwa Geok Choo (1920–2010), wife to Singapore Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew
- Michael Ashikodi Agbamuche Attorney General & Minister for Justice Nigeria (Sept 1994-1997)
See also
Category:Members of the Middle Temple
References