Editing Mathew Thorpe (section)

==Legal career==
Thorpe was [[called to the bar]] ([[Inner Temple]]) in 1961 and was appointed a [[Queen's Counsel]] in 1980.<ref name=JudiciaryBio>{{cite web |url=http://www.judiciary.gov.uk/about-the-judiciary/judges-magistrates-and-tribunal-judges/biographies/lj-thorpe-biography |title=The Rt. Hon Lord Justice Matthew Thorpe |accessdate=21 October 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121022130622/http://www.judiciary.gov.uk/about-the-judiciary/judges-magistrates-and-tribunal-judges/biographies/lj-thorpe-biography |archivedate=22 October 2012  }}</ref> He was appointed a [[Recorder (judge)|Recorder]] in 1982.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=49128 |page=12867 |date=4 October 1982}}</ref> He was appointed a [[High Court judge (England and Wales)|High Court judge]] on 11 April 1988,<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=51305 |page=4573 |date=18 April 1988}}</ref> assigned to the [[Family Division]], and received the customary [[Knight Bachelor|knighthood]]. He was appointed a [[Lord Justice of Appeal]] on 2 October 1995.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=54177 |page=13511 |date=6 October 1995}}</ref> Thorpe was appointed Deputy Head of Family Justice and Head of International Justice in January 2005.<ref name=JudiciaryBio/>  He retired on 31 July 2013