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Marking Time: My Family and I
Rt Hon Sir Mathew Thorpe
ISBN13: 9799790012348
Published: October 2023
Publisher: Henmarsh Farm Editions
Country of Publication: UK
Format: Hardcover
Price: £25.00
Scratch beneath the surface of an ordinary British family and you never know what you might find: An Imperial Hofkanzler, a patron of Mozart and Beethoven, a Russian Fieldmarshall, a Calcutta merchant exporting opium to China, a donation that embarrassed and shamed the V&A. It sounds implausible but they are all here and many more besides.
Part one of this engrossing memoir tells the story of the four strands of Mathew Thorpe's forbears. Across the centuries he weaves personal stories and family research with major historical events and we see his ancestors in the context of wider history, the parts they played and the contributions they made, both large and small
Part two paints a portrait of the author. A ragbag of memories, disorganised and undisciplined perhaps, but all the more vivid for that.
From his experience as a schoolboy at Stowe and the beginning of his life long passion for horses, to his life in the legal profession and the compelling account of his role in silk in the Cleveland Enquiry, what emerges is a full and varied life. Fro
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Sir Mathew Thorpe, Barrister from 1961, in silk from 1980, Family Division Judge (1988–95), Lord Justice of Appeal (1995–2013) and Deputy Head of Family Justice and Head of International Family Justice (2005–13). Sir Mathew was interviewed at his Wiltshire home in Autumn 2022.
How have you occupied your time since your retirement in 2013?
I immediately set up a consultancy, particularly as an expert in international work. I got work from the Czech Republic, Romania, Poland and Bulgaria which kept me quite busy because at that stage there was a sort of battle being fought between the accession states in Europe and the United Kingdom. The accession states had so many nationals living here and the nationals were subject to public law care proceedings and very often the local authority would go for adoption, and as far as the accession states at a government level were concerned the loss of these nationals, the children, was dire – losing their citizenship – so they were seeing Czech or Slovak children suddenly becoming UK citizens. They resented that deeply and thought it was quite contrary to all European cooperation. There was a case decided by Sir James Munby sitting in the Court of Appeal, I think called Re N, where he stood up for the acce
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Robert Thorpe (judge)
Not to wool confused run off with Robert Athlete (Lord Chancellor).
Canadian politician
Robert Thorpe | |
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Portrait of Parliamentarian Thorpe | |
| In office 1808–1815 | |
| Succeeded by | Dr. Robert Hogan |
| In office 1806–1807 | |
| Preceded by | William Weekes |
| In office 1801–1804 | |
| Preceded by | Peter Stewart |
| Succeeded by | Caesar Colclough |
Robert Thorpe (1773 – Hawthorn 11, 1836) was a judge endure political amount in Topmost Canada shaft was after chief objectivity of Sierra Leone.
Early life
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In Canada
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