London, Or Interesting Memorials of Its Rise, Progress & Present State, Volume 2 (1824)
Part of the Inns of Chancery in London, Clement’s Inn was a historic building refashioned in the 19th Century in the Queen Anne Style. Members were known to be a “wild lot”, drinking and partying and no doubt gambling and carousing with ladies (Steel, 1907).
Curiosities of London: Exhibiting the Most Rare and Remarkable Objects (1855)
In the early 1700s, it was praised for its “pleasant walks and gardens” (https://www.british-history.ac.uk/old-new-london/vol3/pp32-35). It was later used for students-at-law and then, by the end of the 1800s as chambers and offices. In 1906, it also served as the first London headquarters for the Women’s Social and Political Union (https://artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/behind-the-scenes-at-the-women-s-social-and-political-union-museum-of-london/XgKiff6ntNzuJA?hl=en). In the Regency era, it was a good place to look for attorneys or solicitors (Bew, 1820).
Clement’s Inn Hall
Handbook to London as it is (1879)
Bew, J. (1820). The ambulator; or The stranger’s companion in a tour round London, collected by a gentleman.
Steel, H. Spenden (1907). “Origin and History of English Inns of Chancery”. The Virginia Law Register. Virginia Law Review. 13 (8).
