Edward Turnour, 1st Earl Winterton
- Edward Turnour, 1st Earl Winterton
Edward Turnour Turnour, 1st Earl Winterton (1734-10 August 1788), was a British politician.
Born Edward Turnour Garth, Winterton was the son of Joseph Garth and his wife Sarah (née Gee). On his mother's side he was a great-great-grandson of Sir Edward Turnor, Speaker of the House of Commons from 1661 to 1671, and on succeededing to the Turnour estates on here death in 1744 he assumed by Royal license the surname of Turnour in lieu of Garth. In March 1761 he was raised to the Peerage of Ireland as Baron Winterton, of Gort in the County of Galway. In December of the same year Winterton was elected to the House of Commons for Bramber, a seat he held until 1769. He was further honoured when he was created Viscount Turnour, of Gort in the County of Galway, and Earl Winterton, in the County of Galway, in 1776, also in the Peerage of Ireland.
Lord Winterton died in August 1788 and was succeeded in the earldom by his son Edward.
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