TURNER, Sir Charles, 2nd Bt. (1773-1810), of Kirk Leatham Hall, Yorks.

Turner, who was said to have spent £8,000 on his election, came in for Hull in 1796, when Earl Fitzwilliam’s political misfortunes drove him to abandon his interest there. He had joined the Whig Club, 11 Jan. 1791, and Brooks’s, 30 Oct. 1795. At the close of the election he promised ‘an independent conduct, an opposition to the war, and a steady regard to the interests of the town of Hull’. But, unlike his father, he made no mark in the House and is not known to have opposed administration except on parliamentary reform, 26 May 1797. Turner did not seek re-election in 1802. He died 1 Feb. 1810, a keen patron of the turf.1Hull Advertiser, 4 June; E. Riding RO, Sykes mss DDSY/101/67, Broadley to Sykes, 18 June 1796.