Notable Members
See also: Category:Members of the Inner TempleSignificant members of the judiciary include Sir Edward Coke, Lady Justice Butler-Sloss, and Lord Justice Birkett. Several barrister members have gone on to be highly important, including Edward Marshall-Hall, and legal academics have also been members, such as Sir John Baker. Prime Ministers Clement Attlee and George Grenville have both been members, as was the first Prime Minister of Malaysia, Tunku Abdul Rahman, the first Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru, the founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah fifth President of India, Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, father of the Indian independence movement, was called to the bar at Inner temple in 1891, before returning to India. Outside of the law and politics, members have included the poet Arthur Brooke, Admiral Francis Drake, dramatist W. S. Gilbert, the economist John Maynard Keynes and diplomat and Righteous among the Nations Prince Constantin Karadja.
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