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James Turner (architect)

British architect

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionApr 24, 2022
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James Turner (c. 1852 – 12 October 1899) was a British architect based in Matlock.

History

He was born in New Mills, Derbyshire around 1852, the son of Thomas B Turner and Mary. With his wife Elizabeth, he had 5 sons:

Thomas B Turner (1877-1888)

James Parson Turner (b. 1879)

Joseph Turner (1881-1957)

Frederick Turner (1883-1963)

John Edward Turner (b. 1885)

Samuel William Turner (b. 1888)

Until 1893 he was in partnership with George Robert Hall in Matlock as Architects, Surveyors and Estate Agents, as Turner and Hall.

He died on 12 October 1899 and left an estate valued at £159 14s (equivalent to £17,700 in 2025).

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This entry incorporates text from “James Turner (architect)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.