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Rumpole creator and QC dies
JOHN MORTIMER, the creator of one of Britain's most well-known legal television dramas, Rumpole of the Bailey, has died at age 85.As reported by news.com.au, Mortimer was a lawyer and an author…
Lawyers Weekly
JOHN MORTIMER, the creator of one of Britain's most well-known legal television dramas, Rumpole of the Bailey, has died at age 85.
Timothy West, who played the character of barrister Horace Rumpole in the popular television series, said that Mortimer had achieved a huge amount in life as a writer and as a QC.
"His creation of Rumpole is, in a way, an expansion of all the things he did and liked to do when he was practising law himself," he said.
According to news.com.au, Mortimer, who was knighted in 1998, died at home after a long illness.
- Zoe Lyon
