One of the two Inns attached to Lincoln's Inn, the other being Thavie's Inn (which has a street and building just south of Holborn Circus). At Staple Inn we share with you our meagre understanding of what Inns are, or were.
During the 1820s the medieval building was completely replaced and it was in this new structure that Dickens had rooms. In 1897 that building also went, to be replaced with the magnificent red-brick Prudential Building that we have today.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Furnival's Inn
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Furnival's Inn
Site of Furnival's Inn, demolished 1897. The Corporation of the City of London
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Marshalsea Prison
Originally built to hold prisoners being tried by the Marshalsea Court and the Court of the King's Bench. Its first site, from at least 1329 was on Borough High Street on the block now bordered...
6 memorials
Lieutenant Commander James Dawbarn Young, R.N.V.R.
Qualified as surveyor and then as a lawyer. Public spirited and worked with the Claremont Central Mission (we think this was a nationwide religious charitable organisation working with young peopl...
War dead, WW1
3 memorials
E. E. Woods
Alderman in the Borough of Hammersmith in 1948. Our colleague Andrew Behan has researched this man (and found the wonderful photo) : Edward Ernest Woods was born on 13 February 1896 in Chelsea, th...
1 memorial
Sir Michael Kerr
Treasurer of Lincoln's Inn in December 1989.
1 memorial
Sir Samuel Romilly
Law reformer. Born in Frith Street. Solicitor-General 1806. Caroline's Miscellany has done the research on his campaign to reduce the number of crimes with a mandatory death penalty. Kept 2 pet le...
2 memorials
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