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TURNER, SIR ALFRED EDWARD, eldest son of Richard Edward Turner (qv); b. 3 Mar 1841; adm. Jan 1854; left 1856; King’s Coll. Sch. 1856-7; Addiscombe Coll. [but not in Vibart]; Cadet, Royal Artillery 29 Jul 1859; Lieut., 19 Dec 1860; Capt., 11 Mar 1874; Adjt., 1 Apr 1879 - 20 Oct 1882; Brevet Maj., 1 Jul 1881; Brevet Lieut. -Col., 15 Jun 1885; Col., 15 Jun 1889; Major-Gen., 25 Oct 1898; retd. 19 Apr 1904; Col. Commandant, Royal Artillery 28 Jan 1911; ADC and Military Private Secretary to Viceroy of Ireland 1882-4; Assistant Military Secretary to Commander-in-Chief, Ireland 1885-6; Private Secretary to Viceroy of Ireland 1886; Commissioner of Police, cos. Cork, Kerry, Clare and Limerick 1886-92; Assistant Adjutant-Gen. for Artillery at Headquarters 1895-8; Inspector-Gen., Auxiliary Forces 1900-4; served as Deputy Assistant-Adjt. and Quarter Master-Gen. in Sudan campaign 1884-5; mentioned in despatches LG 25 Aug 1885; CB (military) 14 Nov 1891, (civil) 22 Jun 1897; KCB (military) 26 Jun 1902; director, British North Borneo Co.; author, Sixty Years of a Soldier’s Life, 1912, in which he gives some account of his school experiences; Busby Trustee 17 Jun 1913; m. 1st, 3 May 1865 Emma Blanche, third dau. of Charles Hopkinson, Wotton Court, Gloucs.; m. 2nd, 23 Aug 1902 Juliette Elizabeth Marie, only dau. of Henry Whiting, Lavender Hill, Battersea, Surrey, merchant; d. 20 Nov 1918.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.