Turton

Turton may refer to:

People

As a surname

(Includes maiden names) See also Turton baronets for Turton baronetcies

• Andrew Turton (born 1938), British anthropologist
• Ashley Turton, (1973-2011), American lobbyist and political staffer
• Chad Turton (b November 15, 1974) Birth name of Chad Kroeger
• Sir Edmund Turton, 1st Baronet of Upsall, York (1857–1929), British Conservative Party politician for Thirsk and Malton 1915–1929
• Edmund Turton (b 1930), retired Olympic athlete from Trinidad and Tobago
• Enid Bakewell (1940–present) (née Turton), played for the English women's cricket team (1968–1979)
• Sir Francis Turton-Hart, KBE, Member of the Nigerian Federal House of Representatives; Lagos Chamber of Commerce President (1960–1963)
• Geoff Turton (born Geoffrey Turton) (1944–present), British singer from The Rockin' Berries (1961–1990s); also recorded under the name Geoff Jefferson
• The Honourable Gerald Turton of Upsal, York, High Sheriff of North Yorkshire, son of Baron Tranmire
• Harriet Bridgeman, Viscountess Bridgeman (b 1942) (née Victoria Harriet Lucy Turton), editor and author, founder of the Bridgeman Art Library
• Henry Hanson Turton (1818–1887), Member of Parliament (1863–1864) in Taranaki, New Zealand
• Henry Turton (1820–1880), chess problem composer
• John Turton (d 1806), the doctor of King George III of Great Britain; treated that monarch during bouts of his madness
• Kett Turton (1982–present), born Birkett Kealy Turton, Canadian television and film actor
• Major Richard Turton, British colonial military officer who re-established the convict settlement at Norfolk Island
• Robin Turton, Baron Tranmire (1903–1994), Life Peer and British Conservative Party politician for Thirsk and Malton (1929–1974)
• Stefan Turton, (1983–present), percussionist, based in Germany
• Sir Thomas Turton, 1st Baronet of Starborough Castle, Surrey (1764–1844), MP for Southwark 1806–1812
• Thomas Turton DD (1780–1864), mathematician and Anglican bishop, appointed Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University in 1822, Dean of Westminster from 1842 and Bishop of Ely 1845
• Sir Thomas Edward Michell Turton, 2nd Baronet of Starborough Castle, Surrey (1790–1854), Legal Advisor to Lord Durham, British North America 1838
• Sir Thomas Turton (barrister), Advocate General of Bengal
• Thomas Trevor Turton (b 1830), Lieutenant General, East India Company and British Indian Army officer, illegitimate son of Sir Thomas Edward Mitchell Turton, Bt
• William Turton (1762–1835), British naturalist

As a middle name

• Geoffrey Shaw, DMus (1879–1943) (full name Geoffrey Turton Shaw), English composer and musician specializing in Anglican church music
• Sir John Randall (physicist), FRSE (1905–1984) (full name John Turton Randall), British physicist and biophysicist
• Sir Richard Gozney, KCMG, CVO (1951–present) (full name Richard Hugh Turton Gozney), British career diplomat; Governor and Commander in Chief of Bermuda (2007–present)

Places

Australia

• Point Turton, town on the Yorke Peninsula in South Australia

United Kingdom

• North Turton, civil parish of the Unitary Authority of Blackburn with Darwen in Lancashire
• South Turton, unparished area of the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, in Greater Manchester
• Turton Urban District, former township and urban district in Lancashire
• Turton and Edgworth railway station, formerly on what is now the Northern Rail 'Ribble Valley Line
• Turton and Entwistle Reservoir, water reservoir in the town of Edgworth, Lancashire
• Turton Tower, Chapeltown, Lancashire, once the home of the Lords of the Manor of Turton, dates back to the 12th century

United States of America

• Turton, South Dakota, municipality in Spink County

Organisations

• Turton Charity, one of several charities established in England to assist the Poor
• Turton F.C., Lancashire County Football Association club based in Edgworth, in the North Turton district of Blackburn with Darwen, Lancashire
• Turton High School (1915–1956), secondary school in Turton, South Dakota
• Turton High School Media Arts College, mixed comprehensive secondary school and sixth form in Bromley Cross, in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton

Culture

• Turton doubling, a manoeuvre found in chess problems, first used by Henry
• The character Sir Basil Turton (Michael Alrdridge) in List of Tales of the Unexpected episodes#Series one, episode 6
• The character Lady Turton (Joan Collins) in List of Tales of the Unexpected episodes#Series one, episode 6

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