After graduation he took up law as a profession, entering Lincoln's Inn in 1820.

* 1919 – Lincoln's Inn in London admits its first female bar student.

Graduating from Christ Church, Oxford, as a Westminster scholar in 1860, he was entered at Lincoln's Inn but gave his attention chiefly to drama, producing Diamonds and Hearts at the Haymarket Theatre in 1867 ; this was followed by other light comedies.

It became the first of Shakespeare's plays to be presented with movable flats painted with generic scenery behind the proscenium arch of Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre.

After a year at Merton College, Oxford, Simcoe was admitted to Lincoln's Inn, but then decided to follow the military career for which his father had intended him.

Category: Members of Lincoln's Inn

Although Gladstone entered Lincoln's Inn in 1833, with a view to becoming a barrister, by 1839 he had requested that his name should be removed from the list because he no longer intended to be called to the Bar.

** John Donne is appointed as Reader in Divinity at his old inn of court, Lincoln's Inn.

* November 16 – A Campaign against Climate Change march takes place in London from Lincoln's Inn Fields, past Esso offices to the United States Embassy.

John Rich staged the play with his company at Lincoln's Inn Fields ; the performance was not long-remembered, as Rich's company was less famous for its work with Shakespeare than for its pantomimes and spectacles.

He became a preacher at Lincoln's Inn early in 1647, and despite his royalist loyalties was protected by his friends in Parliament.

In 1714 he moved to work at the new theatre at Lincoln's Inn Fields, managed by entrepreneur John Rich.

From the 1720s he was the leading bass at Lincoln's Inn Fields and then at Covent Garden.

Quin had left Drury Lane in 1718 and gone to Lincoln's Inn Fields, which was owned by John Rich.

Charles Gildon returned to Shakespeare's text in a 1699 production at Lincoln's Inn Fields.

One, by Christopher Bullock, opened at Lincoln's Inn Fields in January 1716, and the other, by Charles Johnson, opened at Drury Lane the following month.

32 Lincoln's Inn Fields houses the Department of Economics

In November 2009, LSE purchased the freehold of both Sardinia House, overlooking Lincoln's Inn Fields, and the Ye Old White Horse public house.

In October 2010 it was announced the university had been successful in acquiring the freehold of the grade-II listed Land Registry Building adjacent to Lincoln's Inn.

In 2009, the School purchased Sardinia House on Lincoln's Inn Fields and the Ye Olde White Horse public house, adjacent to Parish Hall, as new additions to the estate.

It resides adjacent to the Royal Courts of Justice, Lincoln's Inn and Kingsway, in what used to be Clare Market.

Lewis Theobald staged a successful and less troubled adaptation in 1719 at Lincoln's Inn Fields ; Shakespeare's original version was revived at Covent Garden in 1738.

He received legal education at Lincoln's Inn and was called to the bar in the summer of 1780.

Meanwhile he entered Lincoln's Inn as a pupil barrister and for a year served a pupillage under Charles Bowen.

It was at Lincoln's Inn that in 1882 Asquith met Richard Haldane, whom he would appoint as Lord Chancellor in 1912.

* an excerpt from President Lincoln's " Reply to Loyal Colored People of Baltimore upon Presentation of a Bible ," which reads, " The Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man "

With an entrance overlooking Lincoln's Fields, the new building has dramatically increased the size of the campus, incorporating four new lecture theatres, the Departments of Management and Law, computer and study facilities.

" The quote is apocryphal ; it did not appear in print until 1896, and it has been argued that " The long-term durability of Lincoln's greeting as an anecdote in literary studies and Stowe scholarship can perhaps be explained in part by the desire among many contemporary intellectuals ... to affirm the role of literature as an agent of social change.

He described the United States " the last, best hope of Earth " The " mission " of the United States was elaborated on in Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, in which he interpreted the Civil War as a struggle to determine if any nation with democratic ideals could survive, has been called by historian Robert Johannsen " the most enduring statement of America's Manifest Destiny and mission ".

From ( 1835 – 37 ) he rebuilt Royal College of Surgeons of England, in Lincoln's Inn Fields, Westminster, he preserved the Ionic portico from the earlier building ( 1806 – 13 ) designed by George Dance the Younger, the building has been further extended ( 1887 – 88 ) and ( 1937 ).

In common with the other Inns, Lincoln's Inn also has a " Royal Bencher " — a member of the Royal Family who has been elected a Bencher.

Lincoln's Inn has the earliest surviving records.

That tradition continues to this very day, in that 10 Stone Buildings in Lincoln's Inn has been the permanent home of the Inns of Court & City Yeomanry since the building was freed up by the abolition of the Clerks of Chancery in 1842.

This has also been recited as " Abe Lincoln's axe "; Lincoln was well known for his ability with an axe, and axes associated with his life are held in various museums.

He has also served as Royal Bencher of The Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn since 2001, a position previously occupied by his father.

A history of public outbursts throughout Lincoln's presidency, as well as excessive spending, has led some historians and psychologists to speculate that Mary suffered from bipolar disorder.

* Cent: Unlike all other coins, which had their mintmarks on the reverse until 1964, the Lincoln cent has always had its mintmark on the obverse below the date to the right of Lincoln's bust since its 1909 introduction.

" At Lincoln's death Stanton uttered what became a memorable quote, " Now he belongs to the ages ," and lamented, " There lies the most perfect ruler of men the world has ever seen.

Lincoln's record in major cup competitions has left a lot to be desired.

Consequently, the Anaconda has been somewhat rehabilitated, and general histories of the Civil War often credit it with guiding President Abraham Lincoln's strategy throughout.

In the United States, the Lincoln catafalque, first used for Abraham Lincoln's funeral in 1865, has been used for all those who have lain in state in the Capitol Rotunda since Lincoln's death.

" The oldest building from this early period is Lindsey House, 59-60 Lincoln's Inn Fields, which was built in 1640 and has been attributed to Inigo Jones.

In Charles Dickens ' novel Bleak House, the sinister solicitor to the aristocracy, Mr Tulkinghorn, has his offices in Lincoln's Inn Fields, and one of its most dramatic scenes is set there.

The London School of Economics has recently moved onto the square, taking ownership of 50 Lincoln's Inn Fields, on the corner of Sardinia Street in 2003, where the School's Global Governance research centre is based.

At the end of 2008, Her Majesty the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh officially opened in Lincoln's Inn Fields a new £ 71 million state-of-the-art building housing the LSE's Departments of Law and Management, being the first time that LSE has re-located one of its major academic departments to actual frontage on the park.

It has also recently purchased the Land Registry Building at 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields for academic purposes.

The Old Soldier's Home ( Washington ), now known as the Armed Forces Retirement Home, was the site of President Abraham Lincoln's summer home during the Civil War and is adjacent to National Cemetery, the first federal military cemetery in the U. S. President Lincoln's Cottage has been designated a National Monument, and recently underwent renovation.