Turton
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Turton may refer to:
[edit] People
- Thomas Edward Michell Turton, Legal Advisor to Lord Durham, British North America, 1838
- Thomas Edward Michell Turton, biography
- Thomas Turton, Dean of Westminster from 1842 to 1845, then Bishop of Ely
- Thomas Turton, mathematician, appointed Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University in 1822
- Henry Turton, chess problem composer
- Turton doubling, a manoeuvre found in chess problems, first used by Henry
- Simon Turton, a David Gest lookalike working in the Bedfordshire area
[edit] Places
- Turton Urban District, a former township and urban district in Lancashire in the north west of England
- Turton, South Dakota