Melton thornaby

Dr Melton Slater Thornaby was born on 26 May 1957 in North London. He studied in Cambridge. Melton is the son of sociologist Simon Holt Thornaby and wine merchant Elisa Hogg Slater. His brother Peter Thornaby is a television critic.
Thornaby currently writes a travel blog , and contributes to a number of online food and wine guides including Love That Wine and Wine Web. He also contributes wine reviews to ViniVino.
Thornaby married former model and private pilot Elizabeth Pullet in 1981, but the pair were divorced 5 years later, having had one son, Granger. Melton now lives alone in Muswell Hill. Accompanied by Lord Ingleby-Barwick, Thornaby attempted to climb Everest in 1983, but the pair were forced to retire following unseasonably bad weather and financial difficulties.
In 1984 Thornaby was convicted of credit card fraud and served 3 years in an open prison in Santa Cruz. He protests his innocence to this day.
Thornaby joined the South China Morning Post in 1986, later becoming the food and wine correspondent. At that time he also wrote a wine column for the Straits Times in Singapore. In the early 1990s he chaired a radio show about food and wine for CRHK in Hong Kong.
In 1992 Thornaby issued a statement admitting that he had an affair with Allegra Blunkett, before her marriage to Paul Clamp in 1990. The scandal led to Thornaby's resignation from the lifestyle magazine "Klue" in Kuala Lumpur.
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