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- Birth nameJeremy Nicholas Hutchinson
- Jeremy Hutchinson was born on March 28, 1915 in London, England, UK. He was married to June Capel and Peggy Ashcroft. He died on November 13, 2017 in Lullington, England, UK.
- SpousesJune Capel(May 1966 - September 26, 2006) (her death)Peggy Ashcroft(September 14, 1940 - December 22, 1965) (divorced, 2 children)
- Children
- His clients included Christine Keeler, a model convicted of perjury for her role in the 1960s "Profumo affair", and Soviet spies George Blake and John Vassall. He was junior counsel (with lead defense attorney Gerald Gardiner) for his best-known case, defending Penguin Books against obscenity charges for publishing an uncensored version of D.H. Lawrence's novel "Lady Chatterley's Lover"; the defense prevailed.
- He studied at the University of Oxford, and began his legal career in 1939. He served in the British navy during WWII, surviving a bombing run that sank his ship during the Battle of Crete. Floating in the water for hours before being rescued, he sang to keep up morale and clung to wreckage alongside the ship's commander, Louis Mountbatten.
- Lawyer. Father of Nick Hutchinson. Grandfather of Manon Loizeau and Emily Loizeau (daughter Eliza's daughters).
- Solicitor, he is one of the basis of the character Rumpole of the Bailey created by his friend John Mortimer.
- He was a trustee and chairman for the Tate museum and helped establish its Tate Liverpool branch.
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