John Henry Thorpe
John Henry Thorpe OBE 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.
Thorpe trained as a barrister and entered the Commons in 1919 as MP for Manchester Rusholme. During his tenure, he married Ursula Norton-Griffiths on 19 December 1922, and their son was the Liberal MP Jeremy Thorpe.
