Table of Contents

List of figures; List of tables; List of abbreviations; Introduction; The student body of the inns of court; Residence and finance: the transformation of the inns of court community; The quantity and 'quality' of barristers; Formal and informal legal education; The practising bar: practice and professional development; The practising bar: reputation, wealth, and social development; Barristers in parliament; The pattern of preferment; Conclusion; Appendices;
Bibliography; Index

Reviews

'Dr Lemmings has written an important book, likely to be of enduring value for the student of English society as well as for the specialist legal historian ... Gentlemen and Barristers marks a considerable achievement by a young scholar of very evident promise; one, moreover, who corrects the errors of others with a courtesy and restraint that are refreshing in the light of some recent historians' conviction that abrasiveness is the key to reputation.' Times Literary Supplement 'Dr Lemmings has written an important book, likely to be of enduring value for the student of English society as well as for the specialist legal historian ... Gentlemen and Barristers marks a considerable achievement by a young scholar of very evident promise; one, moreover, who corrects the errors of others with a courtesy and restraint that are refreshing in the light of some recent historians' conviction that abrasiveness is the key to reputation.' Times Literary Supplement 'Lemmings' book is, to the knowledge of this reviewer, unique in its focus on this short yet highly significant period in the Bar's history ... clearly an important contribution to the literature on the development of the English legal profession.' Neil Duxbury, Journal of Legal History, Vol.11, No.3, Dec '90