PRINCE HENRY, BARRISTER

Shannon News, 27 July 1926, Page 4

PRINCE HENRY, BARRISTER

CALLED TO THE BAR, Gray’s Inn Hall, which four times a year circulates the loving’ cup to the pious, glorious and immortal memory of good Queen Beßs, 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 window on a company that included the Treasurer of the Inn ("Master” W. Clarke Hall), the Earl of Birkenhead, and the Gov-ernor-General of the Free State (Mr. Tim'othy Healy, K.C.), besides half a dozen judges and some IGO barristers and students, including eight women. Prince Henry at the head of a dozen students, was presented to the Treasurer, who, in the timehonoured formula., said,' “I hereby call you to the Bar ,nnd publish you barrister-at-law.” After dinner, standing at the Benchers’ table, his Royal Highness responded to the toast of the newlymade barristers. He laughingly showed that he had scored over his fellows by accomplishing, since his arrival in Hall, what took the cleverest student three years (a call to the Bar). He hoped befor 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 he bore the same name, he hoped another such period would ensue. His colleagues, who were subse- ! quently "called,” having been pre--1 sented to the Prince, the ' Benchers adjourned to the “Pension Room,” where his Royal Highness was called

within the Bar as a Bencher of the Inn. The usual uproarious scenes ot "Call Night” were subsequently enacted in Hall, when the other new barristers responded to the toast of their prosperous future.