Sir Richard Eustace Thornton (10 October 1922 – 7 January 2014Richard THORNTON O.B.E., K.C.V.O.) was Lord Lieutenant of Surrey from 2 May 1986 until 29 October 1997."THORNTON, Sir Richard (Eustace)", Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014, accessed 5 February 2017.
He was the son of Eustace Edward Thornton of Seale, Surrey, and his wife Myrtle Estelle Bellamy, and was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge. He married in 1964 Gabrielle Elizabeth Sharpe, daughter of William Henry Sharpe; the couple had four daughters.
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