CALLED TO THE BAR
QUEEN ELIZABETH A BENCHER
MIDDLE TEMPLE CEREMONY (Rec. 10 p.m.) LONDON, Dec. 13. The Queen was last night admitted as a student of the Middle Temple and called to the Bar. She was made a bencher of the Inn all within 10 minutes, after which she had dinner With the benchers. She is the first woman bencher of the Middle Temple, but not the first woman bencher, for Queen Mary became a bencher of Lincoln’s Inn last year, though she was not present when called owing to the war. The first Queen Elizabeth, 400 vears ago. was a frequent visitor to the Middle Temple, but was not a bencher.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25718, 14 December 1944, Page 5
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