• 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...
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  • The Thorpe affair of the 1970s was a British political and sex scandal that ended the career of Jeremy Thorpe, the leader of the Liberal Party and Member...
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  • revolved around the alleged plot by his ex-boyfriend, Liberal Party leader Jeremy Thorpe, to murder Scott after Scott threatened to reveal their relationship...
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    2013. Leo McKinstry, "The downfall of Jeremy Thorpe", Express, 8 May 2009. Retrieved 16 February 2013. "Jeremy Thorpe – Former Liberal Party Leader in the...
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  • 2016 book of the same name. It is a dramatisation of the 1976–1979 Jeremy Thorpe scandal and more than 15 years of events leading up to it. The producers...
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    million during 1978). The Liberal Party was damaged by allegations that Jeremy Thorpe, its former leader, had been involved in a homosexual affair and had...
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    elections, he made way for a younger leader, the charismatic Jeremy Thorpe. In 1976, when Thorpe was forced to resign because of a scandal, Grimond stepped...
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    resident at flat No. 6 from the early 1970s until his death in 1981. Jeremy Thorpe the leader of the Liberal Party rented a one bedroom flat in Marsham...
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  • playing who in the BBC Jeremy Thorpe drama". The Telegraph. 20 May 2018. Retrieved 11 September 2020. Bloch, Michael (2014). Jeremy Thorpe. London: Little Brown...
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    life as Jeremy Thorpe in a Very English Scandal". 9 June 2021. Jackson, James (4 June 2018). "TV review: A Very English Scandal | the Jeremy Thorpe Scandal"...
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  • and their son was the Liberal MP (John) Jeremy Thorpe (1929–2014). Obituary in The Times, Mr J. H. Thorpe K.C., November 1, 1944, p.7 "p.156-7. Debrett's...
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    that country. They have not made either achievement ever since. Both Jeremy Thorpe, a future Liberal leader, and Margaret Thatcher, a future Conservative...
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    considerable share of the popular vote, largely to the Liberal Party under Jeremy Thorpe's leadership, which polled two-and-a-half times its share of the vote...
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    became known as the Thorpe affair. In 1996, Scott Freeman and Barrie Penrose published Rinkagate: Rise and Fall of Jeremy Thorpe. Mascots The Great Dane...
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  • States. The novel details the 1970s Thorpe affair in Britain, in which former Liberal Party leader Jeremy Thorpe was tried and acquitted of conspiring...
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  • Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood, and Marion Stein, who later married Jeremy Thorpe. He is a great-grandson of King George V. He was educated at Westminster...
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    Prime Minister Harold Wilson. The Liberal Party, under its new leader Jeremy Thorpe, lost half its seats. The Conservatives, including the Ulster Unionist...
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    Safe, The Deal, and Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight. He directed the Jeremy Thorpe BBC One biographical miniseries A Very English Scandal, for which he...
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  • of Lords (2013–) Jeremy Thorpe (1929–2014), British MP for North Devon (1959–1979) and Leader of the Liberal Party (1967–1976) Jeremy Wright (politician)...
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    Television short W1A Himself 1 episode 2018 A Very English Scandal Jeremy Thorpe Miniseries, 3 episodes 2019 One Red Nose Day and a Wedding Charles Television...
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  • 1990s. In 1979, he successfully defended the former Liberal leader Jeremy Thorpe after he was charged with conspiracy to murder. Carman had been appointed...
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  • High Court judge. He is most notable for presiding over the trial of Jeremy Thorpe in 1979. Cantley was born in Manchester, where his father was a general...
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    Alastair Burnet, Robert McKenzie, Robin Day and Sue Lawley. Since Jeremy Thorpe's death in December 2014, this is the latest election where all the three...
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  • for the Tate–LaBianca murders (1970) Trial of Jeremy Thorpe for conspiring to murder Norman Josiffe (Thorpe affair) (1979) Ted Bundy Chi Omega Trial (1979)...
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    Molton. In the 20th century this area had a prominent national MP, Jeremy Thorpe, who led a Liberal Party revival countrywide, with particular strength...
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  • Scandal alongside Hugh Grant, and Ben Whishaw, a miniseries about the Jeremy Thorpe affair directed by Stephen Frears. The film received widespread critical...
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    James Francis Thorpe (Sac and Fox (Sauk): Wa-Tho-Huk, translated as "Bright Path"; May 22 or 28, 1887 – March 28, 1953) was an American athlete and Olympic...
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  • used for the last MP only contested leadership election in 1967, when Jeremy Thorpe became leader after a vote split between three candidates of 6-3-3....
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    nomination for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his performance as Jeremy Thorpe in the limited series A Very English Scandal (2018). He has also received...
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  • "One more heave" was a slogan used by British Liberal Party leader Jeremy Thorpe during the October 1974 general election and a phrase used (sometimes...
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