Osborne Moorhouse Thorp

Osborne Moorhouse Thorp LRIBA MSA (1881 – 26 August 1970) was an architect based in Long Eaton[1] and later Chapel St. Leonards.

He was born on 24 November 1881 in Folkestone, Kent, the son of Thomas Moorhouse Thorp (1835-1914) and Emma Bentley (1840-1916).

On 6 June 1908 he married Ethel Mary Lester (1877-1958) and they had two children: In 1912 he was operating from an office at 133 College Street, Long Eaton.

After military service he continued his business in Long Eaton from Lawson Avenue.

[1] In the 1930s he lived at 16 Berridge Road East in Nottingham but after the Second World War he moved to Spilsby in Lincolnshire.