Editing Jeremy Thorpe (section)

===Schooling===
In January 1938 Jeremy went to [[Cothill House]], a school in [[Oxfordshire]] that prepared boys for entry to [[Eton College|Eton]]. By mid-1939 war looked likely, and the Thorpe family moved from London to the [[Surrey]] village of [[Limpsfield]] where Jeremy attended [[Hazelwood School]].{{sfn|Bloch|2014|pp=37–39}}<ref>{{cite web|title=Limpsfield-educated-Jeremy-Thorpe-dies|url=http://www.surreymirror.co.uk/Limpsfield-educated-Jeremy-Thorpe-dies/story-25609782-detail/story.html|website=Surrey Mirror|access-date=10 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924112051/http://www.surreymirror.co.uk/Limpsfield-educated-Jeremy-Thorpe-dies/story-25609782-detail/story.html|archive-date=24 September 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> War began in September 1939; in June 1940, with invasion threatening, the Thorpe children were sent to live with their American aunt, Kay Norton-Griffiths, in [[Boston]]. In September that year Jeremy began at the [[Rectory School]] in [[Pomfret, Connecticut]]. He remained there for three generally happy years; his main extracurricular task, he later recalled, was looking after the school's pigs. In 1943 it was thought safe for the children to return to England, and John Henry used his political connections to secure for Jeremy a passage in the [[Royal Navy]] cruiser [[HMS Phoebe (43)|HMS ''Phoebe'']].{{sfn|Thorpe|1999|pp=8–9}}

Thorpe started at Eton in September 1943. He proved an indifferent scholar, he lacked sporting aptitude, and although superficially a rebel against conformity, his frequent toadying to authority earned him the nickname "Oily Thorpe".{{sfn|Bloch|2014|pp=44–46}} He also annoyed his fellow-pupils by parading his acquaintance with a range of famous and important people. He offended the school's traditionalists by resigning from the school's cadet force, and shocked others by expressing his intention to marry [[Princess Margaret]], then second in line to the British throne.{{sfn|Bloch|2014|pp=55–57}} Thorpe revealed little about his Eton years, beyond his membership of the school orchestra and his winning a cup for his violin playing—he briefly considered the possibility of a career as a professional violinist.{{sfn|Thorpe|1999|pp=33–34}} His time at Eton was marred by the death of his father in 1944, at the age of 57.{{sfn|Thorpe|1999|p=11}}