Sir Edmund Turton, 1st Baronet

Sir Edmund Russborough Turton, 1st Baronet, JP, DL (1 November 1857 – 8 May 1929) was a British Conservative Party politician.

He 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 was appointed Chairman of the North Riding Quarter Sessions in 1898, a position that he held until at least 1926. He was a Member of the Speaker's Conference on Electoral Reform 1916-17; the Royal Commission on London Government, 1921–23; and of the Royal Commission on Local Government, 1923–25.

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.

In 1926 Turton had been created a baronet, of Upsall in the County of York, a title which became extinct on his death.

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Sir Edmund Turton

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Viscount Helmsley	Member of Parliament for Thirsk & Malton 1915 – 1929	Succeeded by Robin Turton
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
New creation	Baronet (of Upsall) 1926 – 1929	Extinct