Author: Turnour, Edward John
Biography:
TURNOUR, Edward John (1778-1844: ancestry.co.uk)
He was born on 8 Nov. 1778 at Shillinglee Park, Petworth, Sussex, the son of Edward Garth Turnour, Earl of Winterton, and his second wife Elizabeth Armstrong, who had married in Feb. 1778. He was educated at St. Mary’s Hall, Oxford (matric. 26 May 1800, MA 1805) and received the same degree from Cambridge in 1819. He was ordained deacon (1814) and priest (1815). He was stipendiary curate at Heston, Hounslow (now London) from 1814 as well as domestic chaplain to his mother, the Dowager Countess of Winterton. From 1819 he was stipendiary curate at Hampstead and in 1827 obtained two curacies in Sussex, at Chichester and Bognor. He married Elizabeth Richardson (1778-1824), the daughter of his mother’s second husband, William Richardson, Accountant-General of the EIC, on 16 Nov. 1799 at St. Mary’s, Marylebone, London. They had eleven children with several infant deaths. She died at their house in Somerset Street, Portman Square, Marylebone, on 5 Apr. 1824. He then married Rebecca Jones (1795-1887) on 21 May 1825 at St. Mary’s, Newington. They had at least four children. His final years were spent at Cranleigh, Surrey, where he died on 10 May 1844. His Thoughts in Youth and Age (1831) is virtually a collected works, reprinting his two early reproofs to infidels and his appeal for destitute widows of clergy, separately listed here. Occasional poems record the births and deaths of his children and first wife and his marriages. It also contains topographical poems on Stonehenge, Malvern Hills, Penmaen Mawr in North Wales, and on watering-places. An afterpiece, “The Negro of Saint Domingo, or the Triumph of Humanity,” and a poem “On the Abolition of the Slave-Trade” record his opposition to slavery. His theological works defended the Church of England: Sermons on the Union of Truth, Reason and Revelation, in the Doctrines of the Established Church (1816), The Protestant Church Alone Faithful in Reading the Word of God (1818), Sermons on the Unerring Doctrines of the Established Church (1820). (ancestry.co.uk 22 Dec. 2022; findmypast.co.uk 22 Dec. 2022; CCEd 22 Dec. 2022; OJ 23 Nov. 1799, 10 Apr. 1824, 28 May 1825, 18 May 1844; European Magazine Apr. 1821, 291-4) AA
Other Names:
- E. J. Turnour