Sir Edmund Turton, 1st Baronet

British politician

Sir Edmund Turton, 1st Baronet


Member of Parliament
In office 1915–1929
Constituency	Thirsk & Malton division

Personal details
Born	Edmund Russborough Turton (1857-11-01)1 November 1857
Died	9 May 1929(1929-05-09) (aged 71) Upsall, North Yorkshire, England
Political party	Conservative
Spouse	Clementina Ponsonby-Fane (m. 1888)
Education	Eton College Brasenose College, Oxford

Sir Edmund Russborough Turton, 1st Baronet, JP, DL (1 November 1857 – 9 May 1929^[1]) was a British Conservative Party politician.

Life

He was born on 1 November 1857, the eldest child of Edmund Henry Turton of the 3rd Dragoon Guards and his wife Lady Cecilia Mary Leeson, 2nd daughter of Joseph Leeson, 4th Earl of Milltown.^[2]^[3] He was educated at Eton College, and matriculated at Brasenose College, Oxford in 1876. He was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1882.^[4]

Turton was an unsuccessful candidate in the Richmond division of the North Riding of Yorkshire at the 1892 and 1895 elections.^[5] He finally entered the House of Commons twenty years later, in 1915, when he was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Thirsk & Malton division. His predecessor had inherited a peerage, and Turton was returned unopposed at the resulting by-election.^[5]

He was appointed Chairman of the North Riding Quarter Sessions in 1898, a position that he held until at least 1926. He was a Member of the Speaker's Conference on Electoral Reform 1916–17; the Royal Commission on London Government, 1921–23; and of the Royal Commission on Local Government, 1923–25.^[6]

He held the seat until his death at the age of 71, three weeks before the 1929 general election,^[7] when a relative, Robin Turton, was elected to succeed him.

Family

Turton married in 1888 Clementina, daughter of Spencer Ponsonby-Fane. They had one son, who joined the Yorkshire Hussars and was killed in action in 1915.^[3]

In 1926, Turton was created a baronet, of Upsall in the County of York.^[3]

He died at Upsall Castle on 9 May 1929.^[3] He left no heir.^[8] The title became extinct on his death.^[1]^[6]

References

^ ^a ^b "Baronetcies beginning with "T" (part 2)". Leigh Rayment's Baronetage pages. Archived from the original on 1 May 2008. Retrieved 2 May 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
^ Burke, Bernard (1886). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland. Harrison. pp. 1864–1865.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Obituary: Sir E. R. Turton". The Times. No. 45199. London. 10 May 1929. p. 18. Retrieved 21 August 2024 – via The Times Digital Archive.
^ Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Turton, Edmund Russborough" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
^ ^a ^b Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1974]. British parliamentary election results 1885–1918 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. pp. 428, 429. ISBN 0-900178-27-2.
^ ^a ^b "No. 33119". The London Gazette (Supplement). 29 December 1925. p. 2. 1926 New Years Honours List
^ Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 (3rd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 510. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
^ "Turton, Sir Edmund Russborough". Who's Who. A & C Black. Retrieved 20 February 2022. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

External links

Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Sir Edmund Turton

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Viscount Helmsley	Member of Parliament for Thirsk & Malton 1915 – 1929	Succeeded by Robin Turton
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
New creation	Baronet (of Upsall) 1926–1929	Extinct