"At least we're lucky enough to have Rumpole to remind us just how remarkable he was."īorn April 21, 1923, and educated at Oxford University, Mortimer qualified as a lawyer in the 1940s and worked as a barrister in the British courts.Ī lifelong supporter of Britain's Labour Party and self-proclaimed "champagne socialist," Mortimer took up several high profile freedom of speech cases. "It's hard to think he's gone," said Tony Lacey, Mortimer's editor at publisher Viking. His most famous creation was Horace Rumpole, a cigar-smoking, wine-loving barrister who appeared in a TV series and a string of novels and stories.
Mortimer combined a career as a lawyer with a large literary output that included dozens of screen and stage plays and radio dramas. They did not disclose the cause of death. Mortimer's family said he died early in the morning at his home in the Chiltern Hills northwest of London, with his wife and children at his side.
LONDON - British lawyer and writer John Mortimer, creator of the curmudgeonly criminal lawyer Rumpole of the Bailey, died Friday.
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