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...

The Origins of the Turner Family The Turner family had many ties with business and the professions. The first mention in Burke’s Peerage and Baronetage of the Turner family is of a Hugh Tumer (Will dated 1558) of Sutton Coldfield in the Midlands. The first of the family recorded in the lineage was Richard Turner (m. 1567), a barrister-at-law at the Middle Temple, London.   originally from Sutton Coldfield in Warwickshire. (fourth great grandfather to Sir Edward Turner 2 nd Bt, ) Richard’s descendants were, like him, businessmen and professionals, rather than wealthy landowners, and were generally centred on London. His Son Edward Turner (d 1626), was sometime mayor of Leicester. Thus Richard’s great-grandson, John Turner (1622-94), was a London merchant and Vintner, as was his son, John (1650-1708).  He was born at St Dunstan and All Saints London. He was the son of  William Turner  1626-1671 and Mary Cartwright 1626 -1689      Elizabeth Turner nee Cap...

       Battlesden House & Park with the Church  by William Tomkins circa 1732-1792 Battlesden House  was a large manor house situated in parkland, Battlesden Park, close to the hamlet of  Battlesden  in  Bedfordshire ,  England .     A Contemporary print showing Battlesden in 1818 and a watercolour by Thomas Fisher showing the House in its first state. A manor house was constructed in the late 16th century and was associated with the family of  Lord Bathurst  before he sold the estate to Sir  Gregory Page  in 1724. The estate was later inherited by Page's great-nephew Sir  Gregory Page-Turner  in 1775.   Battlesden estate was purchased by Sir Gregory Page 2 nd Bt for his younger brother Thomas Page in 1724, Battlesden remained in the Page-Turner family for 161 years when it was finally sold to the 9 th Duke of Bedford in 1885. Battlesden Park, now about 28 acres, dates back to 1334 wh...