Sir John Mortimer, 1923-2009
Jan. 16th, 2009 02:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Sir John Mortimer, creator of Rumpole of the Bailey, has died at 85.
By coincidence I signed up only a couple of days ago to go to this event, which I dare say will now be rather more poignant. EDIT - not surprisingly, I've just been called by Middle Temple to tell me that it's been postponed at the request of Sir John's family.
This comes, of course, only a couple of days after we lost both Ricardo Montalban and Patrick McGoohan. There's a fairly obvious connection between McGoohan and Mortimer, but I can't think of one involving Montalban.
By coincidence I signed up only a couple of days ago to go to this event, which I dare say will now be rather more poignant. EDIT - not surprisingly, I've just been called by Middle Temple to tell me that it's been postponed at the request of Sir John's family.
This comes, of course, only a couple of days after we lost both Ricardo Montalban and Patrick McGoohan. There's a fairly obvious connection between McGoohan and Mortimer, but I can't think of one involving Montalban.
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