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Cribb
Cribb (Sergeant Cribb in North America) is a television police drama, which debuted in 1979 as a 90-minute TV film from Granada Television in the United Kingdom. Later, thirteen 50-minute episodes were produced, which ran from 1980-81.
Adapted from Peter Lovesey's Sergeant Cribb historical mystery novels and set in Victorian London around the time of the Jack the Ripper murders in 1888, Alan Dobie starred as the tough Detective Sergeant who worked for the newly formed Criminal Investigation Department (CID), determined to remove
he started a law firm around 1899 before entering into a partnership with his brother to form Walker and Walker in 1901. This firm was to be Walker's main employment for the next 25 years. He was a director of Ipswich Woollen Co., South British Insurance Co. in Brisbane, and Medical and Surgical Requisites Ltd.
On the 27th Sep 1905 he married Vera Bridson Cribb (died 1963), the daughter of former Ipswich member, Thomas Bridson Cribb and they had three sons and one daughter. He died in November 1939