John Henry Thornton, who died 31 October, 2025, aged 98, was descended from the Birkbeck landed gentry family.
He was born in Basford, Nottinghamshire, in 1927, son of the Rev John Gordon Thornton (1884-1969), and his wife the former Judith Birkbeck (1887-1960); and married 25 October, 1958, Jennifer Barbara Stephenson (1931-2025), scion of the baronets of that name, daughter of Percival John Parker Stephenson (1900-1973), & his wife the former Pamela Benton Jones (1908-1997), scion of the baronets of that name, by whom she had two sons, Edward and Robert, and a daughter, Katherine.
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