John Turton (15 November 1735 – 14 April 1806) was an English physician.
Life
Born in
Staffordshire
Staffordshire (; postal abbreviation Staffs.) is a landlocked county in the West Midlands region of England. It borders Cheshire to the northwest, Derbyshire and Leicestershire to the east, Warwickshire to the southeast, the West Midlands Cou ...
, Turton became the doctor of
King George III of Great Britain
George III (George William Frederick; 4 June 173829 January 1820) was King of Great Britain and of Ireland from 25 October 1760 until the union of the two kingdoms on 1 January 1801, after which he was King of the United Kingdom of Great Br ...
and treated that monarch during bouts of his madness. His house,
Brasted Place
Brasted is a village and civil parish in the Sevenoaks District of Kent, England. Brasted lies on the A25 road, between Sundridge and Westerham; the road is named Westerham Road, High Street and Main Road as it passes through the village east to ...
, was designed by architect
Robert Adam and is one of the finest country houses in Kent. He was elected a
Fellow of the Royal Society in November 1763.
He died at Brasted Place and was buried in Brasted churchyard. His heavily Grecian memorial tablet in
St. Martin’s Church, Brasted,
Kent, features Doric columns beside the inscription and a sarcophagus. On the latter books and serpent-entwined staff. It was designed and carved by the renowned
Sir Richard Westmacott, who also did within the same church a nearby memorial to Mary Turton (d.1810), which featured a "relief of a classically robed man leaning pensively on an altar ‘To Gratitude.’"
[John Newman. ''West Kent and the Weald.'' The "Buildings of England" Series, First Edition, Sir Nikolaus Pevsner and Judy Nairn, eds. (London: Penguin, 1969), 171]
References
1735 births
1806 deaths
People from Staffordshire
18th-century English medical doctors
Fellows of the Royal Society
People from Brasted
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