William Charles Niblett - Church Court, Temple, London, UK - Citizen Memorials on Waymarking.com

The memorial has three panels to it. The right-hand panel contains the memorial that reads:

William Charles Niblett
1856 - 1920
was called to The Bar by the Inner Temple in 1882.
In 1915 he gave his Singapore properties to the Inn, funding the construction of Niblett Hall.
This plaque was erected in 2004 to perpetuate his memory.

The left hand panel tells of the Niblett Pegasus that is shown in the centre panel. It reads:

The Niblett Pegasus
used to adorn the entrance to Niblett Hall.
Constructed in 1932 behind 3 North King's Bench Walk to house lecture halls and meeting rooms.
On the Hall's demolition in 1992 the Pagasus was resited here.

This website [visit link] tells us about Niblett from a family member's perspective:

"William Charles was born in Azamgarh India in 1851 the son of Philip Niblett and Margaret McAndrew. Philip was the son of Philip Niblett a sergeant in the Berkshire 1 Regiment of Foot who started the Indian branch of the family around 1817.  William was a problem child, always in trouble, and he finally had to leave home. He left for England in 1879, joined the Inner Temple, and was called to the Bar. He did extraordinarily well. He travelled a lot in Europe and elsewhere and even did a stint of legal practice in Nigeria for a while. When back in. England in the late 1880s an agent for the Sultan of Johore recommended him as a barrister for the Rajah. This brought him to Singapore where he settled down to an excellent law practice. He purchased and leased large amounts of real estate and profited from their development as they became immensely valuable. He now began to forget his family but kept in touch occasionally with his two sisters, Henrietta and Ellen, also occasionally sending them large remittances. In 1905 he returned to England having become a very wealthy man.

In 1912, William, at age 61yrs, married Jessica Winifred Tacon and took her on a honeymoon trip around the world, including two months in Singapore. Here he resumed relations with a former mistress. His wife left him and immediately returned to England where she was later confined to a mental asylum. William also returned to England where his health deteriorated considerably, and he looked around to see how he could spend his wealth. William's nephew, Lance, used to relate a story that in 1915 he (William) planned to return to India to decide on how to share his wealth with the family, but his boat was torpedoed in the Mediterranean and after his rescue he returned to England and abandoned the idea. In Dec. 1915 he conveyed all his property by deed to the Treasurer and Masters of the Inner Temple in return for an annuity plus income tax. He also made large donations! the Charing Cross and London hospitals.

In 1917 William met and married Alice Susanne Deveson, a widow aged 59 yrs, a "lady of superior position, kindness and consideration” Apparently he hoped that, with his lawful wife being in an asylum, no one would bring his bigamy to notice but Jessica’s father had been keeping an eye on him and notified the Master-in-Lunacy who brought charges of bigamy against William. Robin's account of the trial and its outcome are given in the history. Eventually) because of his aged condition, poor health, and his wife’s mental condition, he was sentenced to prison for only a month. Divorce proceedings were commenced and a decree nisi followed, but in April 1920 William died from the effects of an accident resulting from slipping on the footboard of a bus. He is buried in Kensal Green cemetery in London.

 William Charles Niblett acquired great wealth but his end was lonely and tragic. He had given away most of his wealth, but what remained was passed on as donations to various claimants and to his sisters, Henrietta and Ellen. The Inner Temple built two modern lecture halls in 1932 (the Niblett Lecture Halls) on the proceeds from his estate. They escaped the German Blitz in Word War 11, but were later destroyed by fire and were finally demolished in 1992 to make way for the new Littleton Building. The wall of the Littleton building still contains a frieze of Pegasus from the original Niblett Hall Scholarships were also created for some relatives. Details of the story of the "unhappy millionaire" are given in Robin’s record. There were also other family stories (verbatim-not in the record) of how my lawyer uncles (Robin, Lance, and Basil) ,when back in England at various times, had tried to arrange for Niblett family members to receive money from William’s considerable assets held in Chancery by the Inner Temple, but without success."