James Buckley-Thorp (born April 1989) is a British entrepreneur from

Somerset ( en, All The People of Somerset) , locator_map = , coordinates = , region = South West England , established_date = Ancient , established_by = , preceded_by = , origin = , lord_lieutenant_office =Lord Lieutenant of Somerset , lord_ ...

, United Kingdom.

Early life and education

James Buckley-Thorp was born in April 1989 in

Bath, Somerset Bath () is a city in the Bath and North East Somerset unitary area in the county of Somerset, England, known for and named after its Roman-built baths. At the 2021 Census, the population was 101,557. Bath is in the valley of the River Avon, ...

, United Kingdom as Tom Anthony James Buckley-Thorp. He did his schooling at Clayton Hall Academy in

Staffordshire Staffordshire (; postal abbreviation Staffs.) is a landlocked county in the West Midlands region of England. It borders Cheshire to the northwest, Derbyshire and Leicestershire to the east, Warwickshire to the southeast, the West Midlands Cou ...

and graduated in law from the

University of Kent , motto_lang = , mottoeng = Literal translation: 'Whom to serve is to reign'(Book of Common Prayer translation: 'whose service is perfect freedom')Graham Martin, ''From Vision to Reality: the Making of the University of Kent at Canterbury'' ...

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, UK.

Career

James founded the international clothing brand

Rupert and Buckley Rupert and Buckley was a British University derived clothing brand with its brand headquartered in Barnstaple, Devon. History The company was founded in 2011 by James Buckley-Thorp whilst at the University of Kent where he was reading ...

in 2011 and opened its first shop in

followed by another new store in the city centre of Oxford in 2016. In 2016, James exited and sold Rupert and Buckley. He then moved to San Francisco for one year. In 2018, he moved to London, where he subsequently founded his second business, Bequest which is a fintech

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company based in London.

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