Thorpe, Jeremy (1929-2014), was the leader of the United Kingdom’s Liberal Party (now the Liberal Democrats) from 1967 to 1976. John Jeremy Thorpe was born in London on April 29, 1929. He was educated in the United States and at Eton College and Oxford University, England. He qualified as a barrister (lawyer qualified to argue cases in all British courts) in 1954. He became Liberal member of Parliament for the constituency of North Devon in 1959. In 1979, Thorpe was acquitted of conspiring to murder a former friend, Norman Scott. He lost his parliamentary seat at the 1979 election. Thorpe wrote an autobiography, In My Own Time (1999). He died on Dec. 4, 2014.
