Sir Edward Turner, 1st Baronet [SEP] noble title
Sir Edward Turner, 1st Baronet
Sir Edward Turner, 1st Baronet (1691 – 1735) was an 18th-century investor, landowner and baronet.
He was born in London the son of John Turner, a well-to-do London merchant (d. 1708) and educated at Bicester Grammar School. Like his father, he became a merchant in London, a Director and sometime Chairman of the East India Company. He served a year as the High Sheriff of Oxfordshire in 1732.
In 1718 he married
was medieval lord of the manor and he granted the people the lucrative fishing rights on the River Kennet.
The noble family of Walter Hungerford, 1st Baron Hungerford originated from the town (c. 1450–1450), although after three generations the title passed to Mary, Baroness Hungerford who married Sir Edward (afterwards Lord) Hasting and the family seat moved to Heytesbury, Wiltshire.
During the English Civil War, the Earl of Essex and his army spent the night here in June 1644. In October of the same year,