George Carman (6 October 1929 – 2 January 2001), a leading barrister (lawyer) of the 1980s and 1990s, first came to prominence when he successfully defended the former Liberal leader Jeremy Thorpe when he was charged with attempted murder. The 1980s decade refers to the years from 1980 to 1989, inclusive. ... The 1990s decade refers to the years from 1990 to 1999, inclusive. ... The Liberal Party was one of the two major British political parties from the early 19th century until the 1920s, and a third party of varying strength and importance up to 1988, when it merged with the Social Democratic Party (the SDP) to form a new party which would become... The Right Honourable John Jeremy Thorpe (born April 29, 1929) is a British politician, who was leader of the Liberal Party from 1967 to 1976. ...

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Born in Blackpool, Lancashire on 6 October 1929, Carman attended a Roman Catholic boarding school and Balliol College Oxford. He graduated in 1952 with a first class honours degree in jurisprudence (law). Called to the Bar in 1953, he practised as a barrister on the Northern Circuit in Manchester, doing mostly criminal and personal injury work. In 1971, he was appointed as a QC (Queen's Counsel).

After successfully defending Jeremy Thorpe in 1979, he became involved in a number of significant criminal trials during the 1980s including the successful defence of the British comedian Ken Dodd on charges of tax evasion. During the 1990s, he appeared in many prominent libel trials on behalf of British newspapers, including the successful defence of the Guardian against a libel case brought by the Conservative politician, Jonathan Aitken. He became known for his celebrity clients, attracting headlines for his robust cross-examination, colourful one-liners in court and for winning difficult cases against seemingly insurmountable odds. Ken Dodd, born November 8, 1929, Liverpool, is a veteran British comedian and singer, famous for his buck teeth, frizzy hair, feather duster (or tickling stick), and his catchphrase, How tickled I am! He works largely in the music hall tradition, although he has appeared in several dramatic plays and...

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Carman was head of chambers of New Court, Temple for the latter part of his career. He died of prostate cancer on 2 January 2001.

For a representative cross section of British national newspaper coverage following the publication of No Ordinary Man: A Life of George Carman, please see the discussion page of this entry.