Sir Charles Turner, 1st Baronet (11 November 1727 – 26 October 1783) was a British politician and

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Early life

Turner was the son and heir of Jane (

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Bathurst) Turner and William Turner, of

Kirkleatham Kirkleatham is an area of Redcar in the Borough of Redcar and Cleveland in North Yorkshire, England. It is approximately north-northwest of Guisborough, and south of Redcar centre. It was listed in the Domesday Book. The area has a collectio ...

, in present-day

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. His father was the second son of Charles Turner and his mother was the daughter of Charles Bathurst, Esq. of York. Along with his aunts, Mary (née Bathurst) Sleigh and Frances (née Bathurst) Forster, his mother was the heiress of her brother, Charles Bathurst, Esq. of Skutterskelfe Hall and

Arkendale Arkendale is a village and civil parish in the Harrogate district of North Yorkshire, England. It is north-east of Harrogate town, and a had a population of 278 according to the 2001 census, increasing to 394 at the 2011 census. It consists ...

. He was educated at Beverley Grammar School, and admitted to the

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in 1744; he also entered

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in 1745.

Career

He was

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for 1759 to 1760. From 21 March 1768 to 17 November 1783, he was

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for

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. He was

for 1772. Turner was created

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, 8 May 1782.

Personal life

He married twice: firstly to Elizabeth Wombwell, a daughter of William Wombwell, Esq. of

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. After her death, he married, secondly, to Mary Shuttleworth, a daughter of James Shuttleworth, Esq. of

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, in 1771. Together, they were the parents of one son and two daughters, including: *

Sir Charles Turner, 2nd Baronet Sir Charles Turner, 2nd Baronet (28 January 1773 –1 February 1810) was an English politician. He was the son of Sir Charles Turner, 1st Baronet, of Kirkleatham, Sir Charles Turner, Bt of Kirkleatham, Kirkleatham Hall, Yorkshire by his se ...

(1773–1810), who married Teresa Gleadowe-Newcomen, the daughter of

Sir William Gleadowe-Newcomen, 1st Baronet Sir William Gleadowe-Newcomen, 1st Baronet (1741–21 August 1807) was an Anglo-Irish politician. Born William Gleadowe, he assumed the additional surname and arms of Newcomen following his marriage to Charlotte Newcomen, only child and heiress ...

and

Charlotte Gleadowe-Newcomen, 1st Viscountess Newcomen Charlotte Gleadowe-Newcomen, 1st Viscountess Newcomen (died 16 May 1817), née Newcomen, was an Anglo-Irish peeress. She was the only child and heiress of Edward Newcomen, a landowner and relation of the Newcomen baronets. On 17 October 1772 she ...

. * Mary Turner (d. 1815), who married

Richard Oliver Gascoigne Richard Philip Oliver (1763 – 14 April 1843), later known as Richard Oliver Gascoigne, was an Irish landowner at Castle Oliver in County Limerick and Parlington Hall in Yorkshire. Early life He was the eldest surviving son of Isabella Sarah ( ...

, of

Parlington Hall Parlington Hall was the seat of the Gascoigne family, Aberford near Leeds in West Yorkshire, England. The Parlington estate contains a number of features: the grade II* listed Triumphal Arch, designed by Thomas Leverton and built around the en ...

. * Elizabeth Turner, who married Col. Campbell, and were the parents of one daughter, Thomasina Campbell. He lived at Kirkleatham Hall, and was 57 when he died on 26 October 1783. His son

Charles Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English language, English and French language, French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic, Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*k ...

inherited his baronetcy and the Kirkleatham estate. His widow remarried

Sir Thomas Gascoigne, 8th Baronet Sir Thomas Gascoigne, 8th Baronet (7 March 1745 – 11 February 1810) was born on 7 March 1745 on the Continent into a devout Catholic gentry family based in Yorkshire. Despite receiving a solid Catholic education at institutions in northern Fr ...

, Aberford and their daughter Mary inherited the Gascoigne's Parlington estate. After his sons death at age 37 in 1810, the baronetcy became extinct.

Descendants

Through his daughter Mary, he was grandfather of four, including Thomas Oliver-Gascoigne (1806–1842) and Richard Silver Oliver-Gascoigne (1808–1842), who both died unmarried. The Gascoigne estates were, therefore, inherited by his two granddaughters: Mary Isabella Oliver-Gascoigne (1810–1891), who was married Col. Hon. Frederick Charles Trench in 1850 (parents of Col. F. R. T. Trench-Gascoigne) and Elizabeth Oliver-Gascoigne (1812–1893), who married Frederick Mason Trench, 2nd Baron Ashtown in 1852.E. M. Johnston-Liik, ''History of the Irish Parliament 1692–1800'', vol. V, pp. 401–402.

References

External links

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Sir Charles Turner, 1st Bt (1726-1783), Lord Mayor of York and politician; MP for York
at the

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