Sir Edward Turner 2nd Bt 1719-1766
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...