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Jeremy Thorpe. John Jeremy Thorpe (29 April 1929 – 4 December 2014) was a British politician who served as the Member of Parliament for North Devon from 1959 to 1979, and as leader of the Liberal Party from 1967 to 1976. In May 1979 he was tried at the Old Bailey on charges of conspiracy and incitement to murder his ex-boyfriend Norman Scott ...
Dec 5, 2014 · Jeremy Thorpe, who has died aged 85, was tagged in the BBC radio reports of his death as “the Liberal leader tried for conspiracy to murder at the Old Bailey”.
Jeremy Thorpe, the former leader of the Liberal party and one of the most flamboyant and controversial figures of British politics in the 1960s and 1970s, has died at the age of 85 after a long...
Dec 4, 2014 · He was sent to a school in Connecticut in 1940 to escape the Blitz. One historian has suggested that the liberal regime at his American school played a large part in formulating his political...
Dec 5, 2014 · Jeremy Thorpe was educated at Eton and Oxford, where he studied law and was a talented debater. He was practicing law in London when he first won the North Devon seat, in 1959.
The trial, election defeat and the effects of Parkinson's disease condemned Jeremy Thorpe to exile from public life but not entirely from politics. Details of the plot that culminated in the ...
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Jun 27, 2018 · BBC. Even in their wildest dreams, the British tabloids couldn’t have imagined such a salacious story dropping into their laps. It was January 1976, and Jeremy Thorpe, British MP (Member of...
