Page-Turner Family History

Sir Edward Turner 2nd Bt,1719-1766  by Sir Thomas Gainsborough Sir Edward Turner 2nd Bt was the son of Sir Edward Turner, 1st Baronet and his wife Mary. He received his early education at Bicester Grammar School and then Eton 1725-32; He went on to Balliol College, Oxford where he was noted for his "distinguished scholarship and the regularity of his behaviour". He was noted for his distinguished scholarship Deane Swift, cousin of the Irish satirist, Jonathan Swift, wrote of him later in life in 1765 in a letter to Sanderson Miller, the architect, “Does your friend, Sir Edward Turner, continue to be a friend to Apollo and the Muses? I wish you Could persuade him to write, as no man I think in England so well deserves to wear the Laurels”. He gained his BA in 1735 at the time of his father’s death, and then spent some years in Europe on the Grand Tour before returning to take his MA in 1738.  Sir Edward Turner 2nd Bt  and Cassandra Turner nee Leigh marriage portrait by A...

  Sir Edward Turner, 1st Bt. Of Ambrosden 1691-1735                                                    Sir Edward Turner, 1st Bt,1691-1735 Edward Turner, was born in 1691, the second son of John and Elizabeth Turner of Sunbury London. He grew up during a period of considerable expansion of British trade and a time when huge profits were to be made from the British East India Company Burke notes that he was a member of Lincoln’s Inn, one of the four professional societies for barristers, though in his time a gentleman’s education often incorporated a period studying the rudiments of law at one of the Inns without pursuing it as a career. Mary Turner  nee Page c.1697 – 1744 In 1718 he married Mary, the eldest daughter of Sir Gregory Page, 1‘ Bt. Of East Greenwich, and it was probably his father-in-law’s influence as well as that of his brother, John...