PRINCE HENRY, BARRISTER

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 3, 3 July 1926, Page 20

PRINCE HENRY, BARRISTER

CALLED TO THE BAK,

Gray's Inn Hall, which four times a year circulates the loving cup to "the pious, glorious, and immortal memory of good Queen Bess," recently honoured one of her line—Prince Henry—by calling him to the Bar, states the "Daily Chronicle." The lights shone through the centuries-old stained-glass windows on a company that included the Treasurer of the Inn ("Master" "VV. Clarke Hall), the Earl of Birkenhead, and the GovernorGeneral of the Free State (Mr. Timothy Healy, K.C.), besides half a dozen judges and some 160 barristers and students, including eight women. Princo Henry, at the head of a dozen students, was presented to the Treasurer, who, in the time-honoured formula, said: "I hereby call you to the Bar, and publish you barrister-at-law."

After dinner, standing at the Benchers'. table, His Eoyal Highness re'spondecl /to the toast of the newlymade barristers. He laughingly showed that ho had scored over his fellows by accomplishing, since his arrival in Hall, what took the cleverest law student three years (a call to the Bar). He hoped before he left to accomplish another seven years' work by being made a Bencher of the Inn. His ancestor, Henry VIII., had inaugurated the Golden Age' of Gray's Inn; since ho bore the same name, he hoped another such period would ensue.

His colleagues, who were subsequently "called," having boen presented to the Prince, the Benchers adjourned to the "Pension Boom," where His Royal Highness was called within the Bar as a Bencher of the Inn. The usual uproarious scenes of "Call "Night" were subsequently enacted in Hall, when the other new barristers responded to the toast of their prosperous future.