Lewis Guy Melville Thorpe (5 November 1913 – 10 October 1977)[1][2] was a British philologist and translator. He was married to the Italian scholar and lexicographer Barbara Reynolds.
After service in Italy in the Second World War, Lewis Thorpe joined the staff of the University of Nottingham in 1946. He was Professor of French there from 1958 to 1977. He served as President of the British Branch of the International Arthurian Society and was a member of the Marylebone Cricket Club.
Thorpe was born in Croydon.[3] He died in Nottingham in 1977.[1]