Jeremy Thorpe
/ˌdʒerəmi ˈθɔːp/
/ˌdʒerəmi ˈθɔːrp/
- (1929-2014) a British politician who was the leader of the Liberal Party from 1967 to 1976. He resigned when a former male model called Norman Scott claimed in public that they had had a homosexual relationship. In 1979 Thorpe and three others were tried and found not guilty of having planned to murder Scott, but the scandal ended his political career. He was a Member of Parliament from 1959 to 1979.