Hunter Thorpe

For an aging academic Dr. Huntington Ellis Thorpe is aging surprising well. At over six feet and near two hundred pounds seems more an aging rugby coach than an archeology professor. Always ruggedly handsome, the years of long hikes and distant digs helped keep him fit and strong. Strong jawed and with a full head of blond hair, only just starting to show signs of gray, and though the desert sun had taken it's toll on his skin, Thorpe could easily pass for a men ten years his junior.

When on campus Professor Thorpe prefers well tailored suits of a conservative but modern style generally procured in Boston or even from Seville road when he was in London. On digs or when he is away hiking a fishing he abandons such vanities for functional field clothes. In either case he prefers a fedora to other types of headgear.

Huntington Ellis Thorpe was born in Arkham in 1866. Huntington's father, Hamilton Thorpe having returned from the war, where he had served as an officer for a locally raised battalion, went back to his teaching position in Miskatonic's Classics Department. Huntington, or Hunter as he is known to his friends and family,was raised in Arkham and spent much of his early life at the University picking through odd collections and ancient relics. It was these early adventures that his father blamed for his son's decision to study the new field of Archeology.

With few choices for study, Thorpe was soon off to Chicago, Europe and then finally Egypt. After years away from home, Thorpe, his Doctorate, reputation and a marriage to a girl from a good family secured returned home to join the faculty of Miskatonic University as a professor in it's new Archeology department. Professor Thorpe proved an an able teacher, and despite the demands of fatherhood and his professorship continued his field work as well. In some cases bringing his wife and children abroad for digs.

It was during one such dig five years ago that his wife succumbed to a fever and passed away. Thorpe, a stoic Yankee, carried on with his work. His children, already grown carried on as well. It was not long after that his boy Herod, was killed while fighting in Europe. The war had been hard on Thorpe as he watched the lists to see so many of his former students falling in the fields of Flanders, but it was his son's death that some thought would break the man. But as always Hunter Thorpe carried on with his work.

While to most folks around Arkham he is seen as as staid and steady academic, with the University he is seen as an innovative and a risk taker. A pioneer in the new science of archaeology as well as anthropology, Thorpe is a trailblazer. The fact that he has spent many years in the field getting his hands dirty also sets him apart from many of his fellows.