Sir Edward Henry Page-Turner 6th bt 1823 - 1874

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Sir Edward Henry Page-Turner 6th bt 1823 - 1874 by Eden Upton Eddis

His parents were Sir Edward George Thomas  Page-Turner (5th Baronet) and his wife  Sophia Williams, he was born at Boulogne 3 Oct 1831, Baptized at the Protestant Church, rue du Temple, Boulogne. Entered Christ Church College, Oxford 1843, aged 18. B.A. 1847. M.A.1852. He married on 10 August 1872 at Trinity Church, Brampton, Middx, Marian Otway, daughter of Charles Otway of Norwich. He died on 20 March 1874 aged 50. His Will proved on 9 th May 1814. She died at Battlesden House, Preston Park, near Brighton, on 25 Sept 1902 and was buried at Brompton Cemetery. Having no issue the Page-Turner baronetcy became extinct.



In 1890 Bramblehanger Manor, now Great and Little Bramingham Farms, was purchased by the trustees of the will of Sir Edward Page Turner, deceased and remained in the Page Turner family into the 20th century. However, a succession of Law of Property Acts in the 1920s effectively abolished manors in all but name. including copyhold land and manorial courts and income. From then on the Ambrosden and Battlesden estates passed down through the Page-Turner family for several generations, many of whom had no direct heir, until finally the 6th Baronet, Sir Edward Henry Page-Turner, sold Battlesden Park in 1885 and left Ambrosden, after his wife's death, to Frederick Augustus Blaydes, the eldest son of his eldest sister, Fanny Maria Page-Turner, who had married Rev. Frederick Blaydes.

                         












Sir Edward Henry Page-Turner, 6th Baronet died childless. The 6th Baronet left all his estates to his nephew, Frederick Augustus Blaydes. The Blaydes took the Page-Turner name and coat of arms in 1903, but sold the estate in 1930. 



Sir Edward George Thomas Page-Turner, who died intestate in 1846. Sir Edward Henry Page-Turner, 6th Bt., was his son and heir and died without issue in 1874. He left all his estates, after his wife's death, to the issue of his eldest sister and coheir, Fanny Maria, who had married the Revd. Frederick Henry Marvell Blaydes. Her surviving son, Frederick Augustus, took the name and arms of Page-Turner in 1903. (fn. 80) The Ambrosden estate was sold in 1930, a year before his death.


Sir Edward Page-Turner and his sister Fanny Maria Blaydes at 
Battlesden House Preston Sussex


Sir Edward Henry Page-Turners Tomb at Brompton Cemetery

He Lived at no 10  Queensborough Terrace  London, He  Left his estate in trust to his eldest daughter and an annuity for life of £1000 for his 3 sisters :

Fanny Maria, wife of Frederick Henry Marvel Blaydes

Katherine Jane, wife of Frederick St Vincent Ricketts

Emily Mary Page-Turner. Spinster

Provision that the children of Fanny Maria and heirs  should take the name Page-Turner and arms

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