Who Was Rumpole Based On

John Mortimer, a British lawyer and writer who created the character Horace Rumpole, a disheveled barrister memorably featured in the popular television series “Rumpole of the Bailey,” died Friday at his home in Oxfordshire, England. He was 85. The cause of death was not reported.

Does Rumpole love Hilda?

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What was Rumpoles first name?

Horace Rumpole, fictional character, a barrister featured in many television scripts and novels of John Mortimer. The rumpled, disreputable, and curmudgeonly Rumpole often wins cases despite the disdain of his more aristocratic colleagues.