A former councillor who was made an MBE has died aged 82.
Barry Rose, a former leader of the Conservative group on West Sussex County Council, also ran his own publishing company.
Mr Rose, who lived in Bognor, was a key figure in the Conservative Party in West Sussex in the Seventies and Eighties.
He served on the former Chichester Rural District Council and Pagham Parish Council and the Bognor Regis Urban District Council, where he won praise for unearthing any hint of corruption.
Mr Rose began his professional life at Butterworths, the law and medical publisher.
In later years he sold the publication and concentrated on his own company Barry Rose Law Publishers, which he made famous for its wide range of obscure legal and literary titles.
He got his MBE in 1981 for his 34 years' service as a councillor and his contribution to publishing.
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