He was born on 1 November 1857, the eldest child of Edmund Henry Turton of the
3rd Dragoon Guards and his wife Lady Cecilia Mary Leeson, 2nd daughter of
Joseph Leeson, 4th Earl of Milltown. He was educated at
Eton College, and matriculated at
Brasenose College, Oxford in 1876. He was
called to the bar at the
Inner Temple in 1882. Turton was an unsuccessful candidate in the
Richmond division of the
North Riding of Yorkshire at the
1892 and
1895 elections. He finally entered the
House of Commons twenty years later, in 1915, when he was elected as the
Member of Parliament (MP) for the
Thirsk & Malton division. His predecessor had inherited a peerage, and Turton was returned unopposed at the resulting by-election. He held the seat until his death at the age of 71, three weeks before the
1929 general election, when a relative,
Robin Turton, was elected to succeed him. ==Family==