John Henry Thorpe

John Henry Thorpe OBE KC (7 August 1887 – 31 October 1944) was a British Conservative politician.

[3] He was educated at St John's School, Leatherhead and Trinity College, Oxford.

[3] Thorpe trained as a barrister (later becoming Recorder of Blackburn) and entered the Commons in 1919 as MP for Manchester Rusholme.

During his tenure, he married Ursula Norton-Griffiths (the eldest daughter of John Norton-Griffiths) on 19 December 1922, and their son was the Liberal MP (John) Jeremy Thorpe (1929–2014).

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