Jeremy Thorpe

Thorpe was born in South Kensington, London, on 16 August 1900. His father was John Henry Thorpe, a lawyer and politician who was the Conservative MP for Manchester Rusholme between 1919 and 1923.His mother, Ursula Norton-Griffiths was the daughter of another Conservative MP, Sir John Norton-Griffiths, widely known as "Empire Jack" because of his passionate imperialism.The Thorpe family claimed kinship with distant forebears carrying the name, including Sir Robert Thorpe, who was briefly Lord Chancellor in 1372, and Thomas Thorpe, who was Speaker of the House of Commons in 1453–54. Making it clear and evident that thorpe was destined for poltical greatness, he went on to school at Oxford law University and by the time he was 25, he had been scouted by multiple political parties including the conservative Party, having a long line of family members  that joined said party.He rejected the offer to join them  in search of his own Path. He joined the liberal democrats and by 1929 he was already their leader.