![]() ![]() Jeremy’s parents were close friends of the Lloyd George family, and it was through that connection that Jeremy, who always saw himself as a future Prime Minister, gravitated towards the Liberal Party and a political career. One of the clergyman’s sons, Jeremy’s father, John Henry Thorpe, became (briefly) a Tory MP in 1919, before Jeremy was born. Later he moved to England where he rose to become an archdeacon in the Church of England. He had nineteen children, one of whom, Jeremy’s grandfather, became a clergyman in the Church of Ireland. He rose through the ranks to become a Superintendant by the time of his retirement in 1890. His great grandfather, William, joined the Dublin Metropolitan Police in 1856, as a constable. The Thorp family were originally from Wexford, where they had settled as part of the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland. ![]() Thorpe was an old Etonian and a member of a circle of friends who were used to having enormous influence in the political, legal, and economic destiny of Britain. I recently read a biography of the former leader of the British Liberal Party, Jeremy Thorpe, written by Michael Bloch and first published in 2014. ![]()
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