GRAY'S INN		ALUMNAE The Honourable Society has hosted a distinguished assembly of great and noble men who have been members or honorary members of this, perhaps, the most intimate of the Inns of Court: 'Gray's' men have included: Sir William Gascoigne, LCJ in reign of King Henry V; The Elizabethans: Sir William Cecil (who later became Lord Burleigh); Sir Francis Walsingham; Sir Nicholas Bacon, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal and father of, Sir Francis Bacon, later Lord Verulam, Lord Chancellor; Sir Gilbert Gerard, Attorney-General and Master of the Rolls; Sir Philip Sidney, soldier and poet; Lord Howard of Effingham, Admiral of the Fleet and Disposer of the Spanish Armada; Thereafter: Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex; Earl of Southampton; Sir Thomas Gresham, Founder of the Royal Exchange; Sir Samuel Romilly; Sir Robert Lush; Bishops Gardiner and Hall; Archbishops Whitgift and Laud; Lord Macaulay, poet; Mr Hilaire Belloc, poet; Mr Sidney Webb; Lord Birkenhead, Lord Chancellor; alias 'F. E.' Sir Leonard Stone, Master of the Walks; Lord Atkin, Law Lord and innovator; Sir Winston Churchill, Prime Minister; Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the U.S.A. (1932-45); Sir Robert Menzies, Prime Minister of Australia, (1949-66); Mr Edward Heath, Prime Minister (1970-74); Lord Selwyn Lloyd, former Speaker of the House; Chief Justice Windham (ret) who lives in Capetown; Lord Elwyn-Jones, Lord Chancellor incumbent; Sir Dingle Foot, Solicitor-General,retd.; and the call to the Bar of, H.R.H. Charles, Prince of Wales in 1971.