Education
Thorpe was educated at two independent schools: at Hazelwood School in Limpsfield in Surrey and Eton College in Eton in Berkshire, followed by Trinity College at the University of Oxford in Oxford, where he studied Law. He was very politically and socially active at Oxford, becoming President of the Liberal Club and the Law Society and finally becoming President of the Oxford Union in 1951.
His period of national service lasted just two weeks.
He was called to the bar in 1954, whilst working as a TV interviewer.
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