British politician
Sir Edmund Turton, 1st Baronet
In office 1915–1929Constituency Thirsk & Malton division
Born Edmund Russborough Turton
(1857-11-01 ) 1 November 1857Died 9 May 1929(1929-05-09) (aged 71)Upsall , North Yorkshire, England Political party Conservative Spouse
Clementina Ponsonby-Fane
(
m. 1888)
Education
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
Escutcheon of Turton of Upsall
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]
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