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John Mortimer
Sir John Clifford Mortimer, CBE, QC (21 April 1923 – 16 January 2009) was an English barrister, dramatist, screenwriter and author.
==Early life==
Mortimer was born in Hampstead, London, the only child of Kathleen May (née Smith) and Clifford Mortimer, a barrister〔(John Mortimer Biography (1923-2009) )〕 who became blind in 1936, when he hit his head on the door frame of a London taxi,〔page 14, Graham Lord, John Mortimer: The Devil's Advocate (2005)〕 but still pursued his career. Clifford's loss of sight was not acknowledged openly by the family.〔Helen T. Verongos ("John Mortimer, barrister and creator of Rumpole, is dead", ) ''International Herald Tribune'', 16 January 2009. This obituary was also carried by ''The New York Times''; a more complete version than the version on the ''IHT'' website is online (here ).〕
John Mortimer was educated at the Dragon School, in Oxford, and Harrow, where he joined the Communist Party〔(Obituary, ) ''Daily Telegraph'', 16 January 2009〕 forming a one-member cell.〔("Sir John Mortimer: creator of Rumpole of the Bailey", ) ''The Times'', 17 January 2009.〕 Originally Mortimer intended to be an actor, his lead role in the Dragon's 1937 production of ''Richard II'', gained glowing reviews in ''The Draconian'',〔 and then a writer, but his father persuaded him against it advising: "My dear boy, have some consideration for your unfortunate wife ... (law ) gets you out of the house."〔
At seventeen, he went up to Brasenose College, Oxford where he read law, though he was actually based at Christ Church because the Brasenose buildings had been requisitioned for the war effort.〔David Hughes ("Sir John Mortimer: Lawyer and writer who created Rumpole of the Bailey and elegised a bygone England", ) ''The Independent'', 17 January 2009.〕 In July 1942, at the end of his second year, Mortimer was asked to leave Oxford by the Dean of Christ Church, after romantic letters to a Bradfield sixth-former, Quentin Edwards, later a QC,〔Valerie Grove ("Rumpole creator John Mortimer dies at 85", ) ''The Times'', 16 January 2009.〕 were discovered by the young man's housemaster.〔
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