Robert Allen Fenwick Thorp (12 February 1900 – 5 May 1966)[1][2] was an army officer and British Conservative Party politician.
When the Second World War broke out Thorp was posted initially to France with the 3rd Division, moving on to Palestine and then East Africa, where he witnessed the capture of Addis Ababa with the 11th (African) Division during the Abyssinian Campaign.
In 1942 he was sent to Northern Rhodesia as a full colonel, and the following year was appointed a brigadier in command of the 31st (East African) Brigade on the Abyssinian frontier.
[1] He was Conservative Member of Parliament for Berwick-upon-Tweed from 1945 until he retired from the House of Commons at the 1951 general election.
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