A Voyage Round My Father A Voyage Round My Father A Voyage Round My Father is an autobiographical play by John Mortimer, later adapted for television. The first version of the play appeared as a series of three half-hour sketches for BBC radio in 1963. It then became a television play with Ian Richardson playing Mortimer, Tim Good as the young Mortimer while Mark Dignam played his blind barrister father. Mortimer then adapted it for the stage and Alec Guinness was the father and Jeremy Brett the son at the Haymarket Theatre in 1971. Mortimer later (1982) turned the play back into a film for
George Anson's voyage around the world and in the end rarely fail of proving successful. It also trained some of the finest naval commanders of the generation, including Augustus Keppel, John Byron and John Campbell. The last known survivor of those that had accompanied Lord Anson was Joseph Allen, who had been a surgeon on the trip, and later went on to become Master of Dulwich College. He died on 10 January 1796 in his eighty-third year. George Anson's voyage around the world While Great Britain was at war with Spain in 1740, Commodore George Anson led a squadron of eight ships on a mission to