Charles Turner

7th Sep 1777 - 17th Jan 1854


Biography

Son of London West India merchant Samuel Turner (1745-1815) and Anne Athill, daughter of Dr John Athill (Samuel Turner and Anne Athill married St John's Church Antigua 24/07/1770). Brothers include Dr Thomas Turner (1773-1865); Samuel Turner (1776-1847) and John Hayward Turner (q.v.). Charles Turner himself was a West India merchant of London and Liverpool.

  1. In 1831 he assigned his assets to his brother John Hayward Turner, Hardman Earle and Richard Heywood for the benefit of his creditors. To date no will or probate has been found for him.

  2. In 1851 Charles Turner aged 73 retired West India merchant born Middlesex was living at 21 South Hill Place Toxteth Park with daughter Anne aged 40 born Liverpool. He had married 13/01/1804 at St Marylebone Maria or Mary Athill (1781-1841), daughter of Samuel Byam Athill and Mary Lynch.

  3. The Rev. Edward Tindal Turner (1822-1911), the son of Charles Turner and Maria Athill, became the Registrar of Oxford University.


Sources

T71/877 Antigua claim no. 265 (Lynch's Estate).

Andrew Roberts, 'Biographies of Medical Lunacy Commissioners 1828-1912', http://studymore.org.uk/6biom.htm [accessed 13/07/2010]. This source gives the death-date of Samuel Turner the father as 1818; R. L. Arrowsmith (comp.), Charterhouse Register 1769 -1872 (London & Chichester, Phillimore, 1974). Thanks to Catherine Smith, Charterhouse Archivist, for this reference.

  1. London Gazette, Issue 18883, 13/12/1831, p. 2629.

  2. 1851 census online; Pallots Marriage Index 1780-1837 record for Maria Athill, showing her husband as 'Chas Turner St Peter Liverpool, Co. Lancaster'; Ancestry.com, London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921 [database online, in which he is transcribed as 'Charles Twiner'].

  3. London Gazette 28487 21/04/2015 p. 3122.


Further Information

Absentee?
British/Irish
Spouse
Maria Athill
Children
Samuel Athill; Anne; Edward Tindal; and others
School
Charterhouse [1789-1795 ]
University
Trinity, Cambridge [BA 1799; MA 1803 ]
Legal Education
Lincoln's Inn [1797-? ]
Occupation
West India merchant

Associated Claims (4)

£716 13s 10d
Unsuccessful claimant (consensual) (Assignee)
£4,747 5s 3d
Awardee
£2,158 12s 0d
Other association
£2,075 15s 9d
Unsuccessful claimant (Assignee)

Legacies Summary

Commercial (7)

Railway Investment
Liverpool and Manchester [184599]  
£2500 
Name partner
Charles Turner
West India merchant  
 
Railway Investment
Welsh Midland [1846528]  
£2500 
Railway Investment
Shrewsbury and Grand Junction [1845172]  
£11000 
Railway Investment
Shrewsburt, Wolverhampton, and South Staffordshire Junction (Coalbrookdale Branch) [1846461]  
£3300 
Railway Investment
Liverpool, Manchester and Newcastle-upon-Tyne Junction [1846275]  
£37500 
Railway Investment
Liverpool and Bury (Bolton, Wigan and Liverpool and Bury Extension) [184598]  
£2500 

Relationships (6)

Son-in-law → Father-in-law
Husband → Wife
Father → Son
Brothers
Son → Father
Business partners
Notes →
Brothers and until 1826 business partners in S & C Turner of London and...

Addresses (1)

21 South Hill Place , Toxteth Park, Liverpool, Lancashire, North-west England, England