John Thrupp
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John Thrupp (1817–1870) was an English lawyer and historical writer.
Life
Born on 5 February 1817, he was the eldest son of John Augustus Thrupp (1785–1844) of Spanish Place, Manchester Square, London, son of Grosvenor Square coach maker Joseph Thrupp of Paddington Green, by his first wife, Mary Burgon. Frederick Thrupp was his father's half-brother. His sister, Dorothy Ann Thrupp, was a writer. After education at Dr. Laing's school at Clapham he was articled in 1834 and admitted a solicitor in 1838; he practised at Bell Yard, Doctors' Commons.{{cite DNB|wstitle=Thrupp, John|volume=56}}
After his father died and left him money, Thrupp spent time on archæology and chess, through which he knew Henry Thomas Buckle. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in November 1861;{{Cite journal |date=1861 |title=First Meeting, Monday, November 11th, 1861 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1799366 |journal=Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of London |volume=6 |issue=1 |pages=1–1 |issn=1478-615X}} and of the Ethnological Society of London in the same month.{{Cite journal |last=Cameron |first=Duncan |date=1861 |title=The Caucasus |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1799368 |journal=Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of London |volume=6 |issue=1 |pages=5–8 |doi=10.2307/1799368 |issn=1478-615X|url-access=subscription }}
Thrupp died at Sunnyside, Dorking, on 20 January 1870. He was three times married, but left no issue; one of his wives was Sarah Crowley, aunt of Aleister Crowley.{{cite book|author=Richard Kaczynski|title=Perdurabo: The Life of Aleister Crowley|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HlEvfflQZbIC&pg=PA10|accessdate=12 July 2013|year=2010|publisher=North Atlantic Books|isbn=978-1-55643-899-8|page=10}}
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Category:19th-century English historians
Category:English male non-fiction writers