Turton

Turton may refer to:

People

• Turton baronets

Surname

• Andrew Turton (1938–2021), British anthropologist
• Ashley Turton (1973–2011), American lobbyist and political staffer
• Chad Turton (born 1974), birth name of Chad Kroeger
• Cyril Turton (1921–2000), English football centre back
• Sir Edmund Turton, 1st Baronet of Upsall, York (1857–1929), British Conservative Party politician for Thirsk and Malton 1915–1929
• Edmund Turton (athlete) (born 1932), Olympic athlete from Trinidad and Tobago
• Enid Bakewell (née Turton; born 1940), played for the English women's cricket team
• Geoff Turton (born 1944), British singer
• Gibson Turton (1841–1891), New Zealand barrister and cricket player
• Gerald Turton, owner of Upsall Castle
• Harriet Bridgeman, Viscountess Bridgeman (née Victoria Harriet Lucy Turton; born 1942), founder of the Bridgeman Art Library
• Henry Hanson Turton (1818–1887), Member of Parliament in Taranaki, New Zealand
• Henry Turton (1832–1881), chess problem composer; see Turton doubling
• John Turton (1735–1806), English physician who treated King George III of Great Britain during the king's bouts of madness
• Kett Turton (Birkett Kealy Turton; born 1982), Canadian television and film actor
• Ollie Turton (born 1992), English football defender
• 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
• Searle Turton (born 1979), Canadian politician
• Sue Turton (born c. 1966), British television journalist
• Stuart Turton, author of the 2018 novel The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
• Sir Thomas Turton, 1st Baronet of Starborough Castle, Surrey (1764–1844), MP for Southwark
• Thomas Turton DD (1780–1864), English academic and divine, the Bishop of Ely
• Sir Thomas Edward Michell Turton, 2nd Baronet of Starborough Castle, Surrey (1790–1854); see Turton baronets
• William Turton (1762–1835), British naturalist

Places

Australia

• Point Turton, South Australia

United Kingdom

• Turton, Lancashire, a historical area, township and former civil parish now partly in Greater Manchester
  • Turton Urban District, a former urban district in Lancashire
  • North Turton, a civil parish of the Unitary Authority of Blackburn with Darwen in Lancashire
  • South Turton, an unparished area of the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, in Greater Manchester
• Turton and Edgworth railway station, formerly on what is now the Northern Rail 'Ribble Valley Line
• Turton and Entwistle Reservoir, a water reservoir in the town of Edgworth, Lancashire
• Turton Tower, Chapeltown, Lancashire, a 15th-century manor house

United States

• Turton, South Dakota

Organisations

• Turton F.C., a football club based in Edgworth, Lancashire, England
• Turton High School (1915–1956), a secondary school in Turton, South Dakota, U.S.
• Turton School, a mixed comprehensive secondary school and sixth form in Bromley Cross, in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton

Other uses

• Turton doubling, a manoeuvre found in chess problems
• Turton River, Victoria, Australia
• Sir Basil and Lady Turton, characters in the British television series Tales of the Unexpected

See also

• All pages with titles containing Turton