Edward Turnour (speaker)

Edward Turnour (speaker)

Sir Edward Turnour (1617-1686) was a Speaker of the House of Commons.

Edward Turnor was son of Arthur Turnor of Little Parndon, Essex. Passing from Abingdon School to Queen's College, Oxford, he became a barrister, called at Middle Temple, and member of parliament in turn for Essex (1654-61) and Hertford (1661-71). It was while Turnor sat for Hertford that he served as Speaker of the Commons (1661-71) and Solicitor General. He was knighted (1660).

According to Geoffrey Robertson QC (in his book, The Tyrannicide Brief), a "Sir Edward Turner" (sic) was a "Counsel for the Victim" (the Duke of York) in the 1660 regicide trials (see pages 291 and 303 of the Vintage paperback edition). Evidence supporting the argument that Robertson misspelt "Turnour" as "Turner" includes the entry for Sir Edward Turnour provided in “The judges of England, from the time of the Conquest” by Edward Foss.


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