Algernon Turnor (14 November 1845 – 11 December 1921), CB, was a British

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who was financial secretary to the British

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. He was the third son of Christopher Turnor (MP) and Lady Caroline Finch-Hatton, daughter of 10th Earl of Winchilsea and Lady Charlotte Graham, daughter of 3rd Duke of Montrose. Algernon Turnor married Lady Henrietta, daughter of

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and Lady Harriet Blanche Somerset, daughter of

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, on 3 August 1880. One of his sons, Major Herbert Broke Turnor (1885-1969) married Lady Enid Fane, they were parents of Rosemary Sybil Turnor, who married Alastair McCorquodale, their son in turn was Neil McCorquodale who married

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(eldest sister to

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). His son Major Herbert Broke Turnor would later inherit the Turnor family's estate. Turnor was the Private Secretary to the Prime Minister, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield in 1874. Correspondence between Turnor and

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is held is the special collections of the

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. A significant amount of material relating to Turnor's position at the Post Office is held by the

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1845 births 1921 deaths Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford British civil servants Companions of the Order of the Bath English justices of the peace People educated at Eton College People from South Kesteven District {{UK-politician-stub