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b. c. 1604, s. of --- Turner of Burrington, Som.B.P. Levack, The Civil Lawyers in England, 1603-1641 (Oxford, 1973), 277. educ. Wadham, Oxf. 24 Nov. 1620, BA 22 June 1624.Regs. Wadham Coll., Oxf. ed. R.B. Gardiner (1889), 57. m. (1) 16 Jan. 1637, Elizabeth Duncombe of Deddington, Oxon. 2s. 3da.; (2) Frances Marsh (d. 1685), 1s. 1da.Oxford RO, Deddington par. regs.; J. Cloake, Cottages and Common Fields of Richmond and Kew (Chichester, 2001), 305.; Levack, Civil Lawyers, 277. Kntd. 26 Feb. 1664.Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 239. d. 1670.PROB11/334/108.
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Academic: Oxf. Univ. MA 11 June 1627; BCL 30 Apr. 1636; DCL 31 Aug. 1636. Fell. Wadham Oxf. 2 July 1629; sub-dean, 1626 – 27; moderator of philosophy, 1628; dean, 1629 – 31; bursar, 1632, 1634; sub-warden, 1633; librarian, 1635; resident fell. 6 Feb. 1637.Regs. Wadham ed. Gardiner, 57.

Legal: member, Doctors’ Commons, warrant 1637, adm. 1641; ‘in Commons’, 1642.Levack, Civil Lawyers, 277. Judge-adv. ct. martial, 25 Oct. 1651.CSP Dom. 1651, p. 494. Judge of admlty. July 1653, reappointed 16 Feb.-?May 1660.CSP Dom. 1653–4, pp. 40, 43; CJ vii. 844b. Commr. trial of Don Pantaleon de Sa, 11 May 1654.CSP Dom. 1654, p. 169. Judge, probate of wills, 16 Feb.-?May 1660.CJ vii. 844b. Judge-adv. admlty. 29 Oct. 1661–d.;J.C. Sainty, Admiralty Officials, 1660–1870 (1975), 154. adv. to duke of York by 1664–d.Levack, Civil Lawyers, 277. ?Chan. Winchester dioc. c.1664.Wood, Fasti Oxon. i. 492.

Local: commr. militia, Surr. 12 Mar. 1660.A. and O. J.p. Aug. 1660–?C231/7, p. 33.

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TURNER, Dr William (c.1604-70), of Richmond, Surr.

Will
14 Jan. 1666 (cod. 18 Sept. 1667), pr. 18 Oct. 1670.PROB11/334/108.
Estates
between 1650 and 1669 purchased house and c.200 acres (freehold and copyhold) in Richmond, Surr.Cloake, Richmond and Kew, 303-5. By 1666 Richmond lands valued at £200 p.a.; also lease from Brasenose Coll., Oxf., £200 p.a.; leases in Westminster and land in Smallbridge, Axminster, Devon (inherited from his fa.), worth £100 p.a.; and had purchased manor of Aldwick, Butcombie, Som.; personal estate estimated at £2,000.Levack, Civil Lawyers, 277; PROB11/334/108.
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