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John Upton: George Carman, 9 May 2002
No Ordinary Man: A Life of George Carman
by Dominic Carman.
Hodder, 331 pp., £18.99, January 2002,0 340 82098 5 Show More
by Dominic Carman.
Hodder, 331 pp., £18.99, January 2002,
“... the one great aim of his career. Much later, he was promised a Liberal Democrat peerage by Charles Kennedy, which also never materialised. These rejections both spurred him on and crushed him. Sadly, life at the Bar has not changed a great deal since Carman began in practice. He almost left it a number of times in his early years because of the lack of money ... ”