Hugh Thackeray Turner (8 March 1853 – 11 December 1937) was an English
Arts and Crafts architect and also an amateur
china painter
China painting, or porcelain painting, is the decoration of glazed porcelain objects such as plates, bowls, vases or statues. The body of the object may be hard-paste porcelain, developed in China in the 7th or 8th century, or soft-paste porcel ...
.
Hugh Turner was born at
Foxearth,
Essex
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, England.
His father, Rev. John Richard Turner, was a
Church of England
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vicar from
Wiltshire
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.
Turner was apprenticed to the architect Sir
George Gilbert Scott and worked under
his son too.
Turner's buildings included Wycliffe Buildings (1894), The Court (1902), and Mead Cottage in
Guildford,
Surrey. In 1899, Turner bought some land in
Godalming, Surrey, with the aim of building a house. He designed "Westbrook", which became his residence. He also designed the garden there. With the
Arts and Crafts garden designer
Gertrude Jekyll, he designed the Philips Memorial Cloister on the riverside in Godalming, commemorating the bravery of Jack Philips, a hero on board the ''
Titanic
RMS ''Titanic'' was a British passenger liner, operated by the White Star Line, which sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on 15 April 1912 after striking an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York City, Unit ...
'' in 1912.
In 1888, Turner married the embroiderer
Mary Elizabeth Powell (1854–1907), the daughter of
Thomas Wilde Powell
Thomas Wilde Powell (1818–1897) was an English solicitor and stockbroker, now remembered as a patron of architects and artists.
Early life
He was the son of James Powell, a bank clerk living in 1830 in Briggate, Leeds in Yorkshire, and his wife ...
from Guildford. Their daughter, Ruth, married
George Mallory
George Herbert Leigh Mallory (18 June 1886 – 8 or 9 June 1924) was an English mountaineer who took part in the first three British expeditions to Mount Everest in the early 1920s.
Born in Cheshire, Mallory became a student at Winchest ...
, the climber of
Mount Everest
Mount Everest (; Tibetic languages, Tibetan: ''Chomolungma'' ; ) is List of highest mountains on Earth, Earth's highest mountain above sea level, located in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas. The China–Nepal border ru ...
who also taught at
Charterhouse School.
References
1853 births
1937 deaths
People from Braintree District
Architects from Essex
Arts and Crafts architects
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