Rumpole and the Primrose Path and wife duo Timothy West and Prunella Scales. The additional stories were: Rumpole and the Primrose Path Rumpole and the Primrose Path is a light hearted legal comedy, one of six short stories in an anthology by writer John Mortimer. It is the 12th in a series based in part on his own past experiences as a barrister but also notable for their use of themes topical at the time each was published. It begins with the eponymous hero marooned in a nursing home where he feels some shady business is going on. It was later the first episode in
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