Clifford's Inn

Clifford's Inn was previously an Inn of Chancery and is located between Fetter Lane, Clifford's Inn Passage, leading off Fleet Street and Chancery Lane in the City of London. Founded in 1344 and dissolved in 1903, most of its original structure was demolished in 1934. It was both the first Inn of Chancery to be founded and the last to be demolished.

Through the ages, Clifford's Inn was engaged in educating students in jurisprudence, Edward Coke and John Selden being two of its best known alumni, as well as accommodating graduates preparing for ordination, such as the novelist Samuel Butler and sometimes those for other professions.

In 1903, the members of Clifford's Inn reached the view that the establishment had long served its purpose as an institute of education, so unanimously voted to dissolve its incorporation. Its remaining funds were donated to the Attorney General for England and Wales.

Since then, Clifford's Inn has housed offices (e.g. The Senior Courts Costs Office) and apartments above, where, for instance, Virginia Woolf, Sir John Stuttard (previously Lord Mayor) and Sir Ernest Ryder (High Court Judge) have been resident.