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Sir Edmund Turton, 1st Baronet
Sir Edmund Russborough Turton, 1st Baronet, JP, DL (1 November 1857 – 9 May 1929[1]) was a British Conservative Party politician. LifeHe 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 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] References
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