John Henry Thorpe
OBE KC (7 August 1887 – 31 October 1944) was a
British Conservative politician.
Thorpe was the eldest son of the Venerable
John Henry Thorpe, Archdeacon of Macclesfield.
He was educated at
St John's School, Leatherhead and
Trinity College, Oxford
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Thorpe trained as a barrister (later becoming
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of
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) and entered the
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in 1919 as
MP for
Manchester Rusholme. During his tenure, he married Ursula Norton-Griffiths (the eldest daughter of
John Norton-Griffiths
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) on 19 December 1922, and their son was the
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MP
(John) Jeremy Thorpe (1929–2014).
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1887 births
1944 deaths
Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
Officers of the Order of the British Empire
UK MPs 1918–1922
UK MPs 1922–1923
People educated at St John's School, Leatherhead
Alumni of Trinity College, Oxford
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