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Mortimer was released in 1419 but then soon after arrested, apparently for inciting disloyalty with treasonous comments against the King and his bastard brother, the Duke of Gloucester. While imprisoned in the tower, John Mortimer attempted to escape on several occasions. Conspirators supportive of him attempted to escape by boat down the Thames.
John Clifford Mortimer (Hampstead, 21 aprile 1923 – Turville, 16 gennaio 2009) è stato un avvocato, drammaturgo, sceneggiatore e autore inglese.. Biografia. Come autore è particolarmente noto per la serie di racconti con protagonista il barrister Horace Rumpole, che lavora presso l'Old Bailey a Londra.
John Mortimer. Nacido en Londres en 1923, John Mortimer fue hijo de un abogado que, a pesar de quedarse ciego, siguió vistiendo la toga durante años. Estudió leyes en Oxford y se convirtió en uno de los más grandes defensores de la libertad de expresión, entre cuyos clientes figuraban la actriz porno Linda Lovelace y el grupo punk The Sex ...
9 de mar. de 2009 · Sir John Mortimer, who died this January at 85, left behind an imperishable fictional hero (the roguish Horace Rumpole of the Old Bailey), a celebrated legal career, and a ringing defense of ...
1 de jan. de 2001 · John Clifford Mortimer was a novelist, playwright and former practising barrister. Among his many publications are several volumes of Rumpole stories and a trilogy of political novels, Paradise Postponed, Titmuss Regained and The Sound of Trumpets, featuring Leslie Titmuss - a character as brilliant as Rumpole.
17 de jan. de 2009 · Shami Chakrabarti, director of Liberty, said: "John Mortimer really was a national treasure. I was brought up on Horace Rumpole, not least in his last big case defending the innocent Dr Khan from ...
John Mortimer John Mortimer (Londres, 1923-The Chilterns, 2009) fue abogado, dramaturgo y novelista. Después de trabajar como guionista para la televisión durante la segunda guerra mundial, escribió un buen número de novelas mientras compaginaba dos exitosas carreras como abogado criminalista y como dramaturgo.
