St Paul told the Corinthians: “Whether you eat or drink, or whatsoever else you do, do all to the glory of God.” It’s a sentiment that underlies the moment, usually under a minute or two, when, across the British establishment, in Oxbridge colleges, Inns of Court and some of the more old-fashioned guilds (and outside it, in pious Christian homes), grace is said before meals. In the case of Lincoln’s Inn in London – one of the four historic Inns of Court to which all English barristers must belong – the most recent version, in English, was a pretty simple affair: “Bless, O Lord, we beseech Thee, these Thy creatures to our use and ourselves to Thy service, through Jesus Christ Our Lord.”