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  BBC NEWS | Politics | Election 2005 | Jeremy Thorpe joins fray on Iraq
Mr Thorpe withdrew from public life after he was acquitted of plotting to kill a former male model in 1979.
Mr Thorpe, who suffers from Parkinson's Disease, continues to be active in the Devon constituency he once represented and is president of the North Devon Liberal Association, but has rarely ventured back into mainstream politics.
Mr Thorpe, who will be in Devon for the closing stages of the campaign, said he believed Labour support was "haemorrhaging" and that the Tories had made "no impact" on voters.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk_politics/vote_2005/frontpage/4504551.stm   (494 words)

  
  Jeremy Thorpe
John Jeremy Thorpe (born April 29, 1929) is a British politician, former leader of the Liberal Party.
However, in 1976, Thorpe was forced to resign the party leadership after being accused of a homosexual relationship with Norman Scott[?], who claimed to have been threatened by Thorpe after the end of their affair.
Thorpe was subsequently one of four defendants in a court case, but was acquitted of attempting to murder Scott.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/je/Jeremy_Thorpe.html   (196 words)

  
 OFF THE TELLY: Reviews/2002/When Jeremy Thorpe Met Norman Scott
The downfall of Jeremy Thorpe is characterised by absurdity and convolution.
Thorpe and the whole affair are forever associated with the 1970s, and any attempt to pick away at the story now, or indeed find closure (which Norman Scott appears hell bent on achieving) seems as much folly as a modern day attempt to track down a Texan bar.
The programme concludes with a statement confirming that Thorpe declined to appear, but still we are left with little sense of the man himself, making it extremely difficult for the modern day viewer to appreciate Thorpe's charisma and panache, and therefore, how sensational his fall was to a 1970s voter.
www.offthetelly.co.uk /reviews/2002/jeremythorpe.htm   (652 words)

  
 BBC - h2g2 - Jeremy Thorpe - Former Liberal Party Leader in the UK   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Thorpe however brought a youthful, dynamic element to the leadership that was much-needed.
Though Thorpe was often upset that the press labelled his approach as all gimmicks with no substance, during one election he did a tour of the south coast by hovercraft; unfortunately the English weather limited the photo opportunities.
Thorpe was married to Caroline Allpass, with whom he had one daughter, but Caroline was killed in a car crash just after the election in 1970.
www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A2430091   (1295 words)

  
 arthritis pain relief - Jeremy Thorpe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
A colourful character, Thorpe was renowned for his assortment of Edwardian suits, silk waistcoats and trilby hats, as well as being a noted raconteur and impressionist.
However, in 1976, Thorpe was forced to resign the party leadership after being accused of a homosexual relationship with Norman Scott, who claimed that Thorpe had tried to murder him after the end of their affair.
Thorpe was subsequently one of four defendants in a court case, accused of conspiracy to murder Scott, because Scott had apparently been persistently trying to flmail Thorpe.
www.painreliefchat.com /arthritis-pain-relief/Jeremy_Thorpe   (566 words)

  
 The World Today - Piracy flourishing, survey finds
JEREMY THORPE: It's fair to say I wasn't surprised by it and what the, I suppose the surprise really is though, it's a generational issue.
JEREMY THORPE: I suspect that the major concern that industry has is that when they do prosecute someone the penalties are extraordinarily low.
JEREMY THORPE: It was only a suspended sentence, but if you look at the damages levels that people who are breaching copyright are subjected to, they don't actually represent the actual costs that they cause to the legitimate industries.
www.abc.net.au /worldtoday/content/2003/s996866.htm   (777 words)

  
 Publisher steps back in Thorpe biography row Evening Standard (London) - Find Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Thorpe, having been introduced to Bloch by a trusted mutual friend, had failed to get his promise in writing, although there is no suggestion that Bloch was intending not to honour the agreement.
Thorpe's friends, including Ludovic Kennedy, Simon Barrington-Ward (the former Bishop of Coventry) and judge John Baker, had also agreed to help, on the same understanding: no publication while Thorpe was alive.
Thorpe was flattered by the meticulous Bloch's desire to write a painstaking historical biography and agreed to help while he was able.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4153/is_20011119/ai_n11986064   (864 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | Archive Search
The occasion was the publication of a book of reminiscences by Jeremy Thorpe, the disgraced former leader of the Liberal Party, and the answer is 23 years almost to the day.
After his aquittal Jeremy Thorpe's lawyer, the late Lord Goodman, announced that there was 'not a scintilla of truth in any of the allegations that have been aired'.
In his own contribution to this puzzling history, Thorpe now asserts repeatedly in his book that he never had any doubt about the acquittal of all the defendants and does not intend 'to rake over the embers of the trial'.
www.guardian.co.uk /Archive/Article/0,4273,3861105,00.html   (761 words)

  
 No new insight Spectator, The - Find Articles
He is convinced that nearly everything, including the acquittal of Thorpe, was due to the existence of the Establishment.
The `British Establishment', according to Freeman, had not been pleased by the marriage of Marion Stein (now Mrs Jeremy Thorpe) to Lord Harewood because she was `foreign, a commoner and, worst of all, half Jewish'.
Thorpe apparently also incurred censure from `many Liberals' for celebrating his second marriage by holding a `Musical Evening' at Covent Garden and by sending out invitations `embossed with gold'.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3724/is_199610/ai_n8757632   (747 words)

  
 Thorpe Surname
Some of the first settlers of this name or some of its variants were: John Thorpe was a settler at St. John's Newfoundland in 1814; Elizabeth Thorp settled with her daughter Elizabeth in Rhode Island in 1635; William Thorp settled in Boston in 1637.
Thorp is the 4,738th most popular last name (surname) in the United States.
Our earliest Thorpe ancestor is William, who travelled from London to North America in 1637 with the Puritan leaders John Davenport and Theophilus Eaton on the Hector.
www.geocities.com /lorrainesolo/thorpe.html   (465 words)

  
 Jeremy Thorpe
Except that at the time when Thorpe became an MP, even when he became party leader, the practice of homosexuality was illegal.
I remember when Jeremy Thorpe was one of the wittiest, most colourful characters in British politics.
Both are well-researched works, but the complexities of the case (which included Thorpe persuading Harold Wilson that the whole thing was a plot by the South African security services) and the sheer detail involved, may exhaust all but the most committed reader.
www.trashfiction.co.uk /thorpe.html   (849 words)

  
 Thorpe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Thorpe may refer to one of these places in England:
David Thorpe (footballer), winner of the 1968 Charles Sutton Medal
David Thorpe (comics), one of the creators of the Crazy Gang (Marvel Comics)
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thorpe   (128 words)

  
 Jeremy Thorpe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In the General Election of February 1974, the Liberals ended up with 14 seats, and 19.3% of the vote, with some opinion polls at times even placing the party as high as 30%.
This is in contrast to the 8.5% of the vote which the Liberals got in the 1966 General Election, prior to Thorpe's election as leader.
Simon Freeman and Barrie Penrose, Rinkagate: The Rise and Fall of Jeremy Thorpe (Bloomsbury, 1996) - probably the most comprehensive accumulation of sources
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jeremy_Thorpe   (1836 words)

  
 Jeremy Thorpe Quotes & Quotations, Biographies And Pictures.
Jeremy Thorpe Quotes & Quotations, Biographies And Pictures.
No biography at this time, please click here if you wish to submit one.
Most of the information found on focusdep.com is released under the the GNU license.
www.focusdep.com /quotes/authors/Jeremy/Thorpe   (75 words)

  
 The Westminster Bookshop > In My Own Time by Jeremy Thorpe
One of the most charismatic politicians of his age, Jeremy Thorpe recalls important events and episodes from his life in politics in this fascinating collection of anecdotes and reminiscences.
The book is fully illustrated with more than 40 photographs and cartoons, and he speaks candidly about important national events in his personal life and political career.
For the first time Jeremy Thorpe speaks of his trial and acquittal in 1979.
www.westminsterbookshop.co.uk /shop/product.php/493/0   (192 words)

  
 BBC Politics 97   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Wilson spent much time on television visiting party workers throughout the country, where he displayed his customary wit.
The new Liberal leader, Jeremy Thorpe, was flamboyant and charismatic, attracting more interest than his predecessor Jo Grimond.
The Prime Minister was accompanied on most of his trips around Britain by his wife, highlighting his image as a family man, contrasting favourably with Heath the bachelor.
www.bbc.co.uk /politics97/background/pastelec/ge70.shtml   (1159 words)

  
 Vimeo / Phil Thorpe and family share stories of Chalres Thorpe video clip (from devinthorpe)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Phil Thorpe and family share stories of Chalres Thorpe
Phil Thorpe and family share stories of Chalres Thorpe on Vimeo
Jeremy Thorpe tells a story about his grandfather
www.vimeo.com /clip=83619   (111 words)

  
 Marion (née Stein), Countess of Harewood, later Mrs Jeremy Thorpe, 1st wife of George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood; ...
Marion (née Stein), Countess of Harewood, later Mrs Jeremy Thorpe, 1st wife of George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood; wife of Jeremy Thorpe
Marion (née Stein), Countess of Harewood, later Mrs Jeremy Thorpe
The online database contains information on 92,385 works, 51,004 of which are illustrated; the National Portrait Gallery's collection includes over 330,000 works.
www.npg.org.uk /live/search/person.asp?LinkID=mp63939   (107 words)

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