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The Reverend Charles Edgar Turner was born in Westminster, London, the youngest son of Mr Francis Turner, a bencher of the Inner Temple and a well-known conveyancer. He was educated at Blackheath, Shrewsbury and Magdalen College, Cambridge, and was ordained in 1850 to the curacy of Daisy Hill, in Bradford. In 1852 he was appointed as rector of All Saints' Church, Bolton, Lancashire, where he remained for nine years. In 1861 the Reverend Turner became the vicar of St Edward's Church, Eggbuckland, and remained there until his death in 1901. During his forty years at Eggbuckland he was responsible for restoring the Church and vicarage, remodelling the Eggbuckland National School, and building the Crabtree Mission Church. He became a member of the Egg Buckland and Laira Green School Board but and at one time he was an inspector of religious knowledge in elementary schools and a trustee of the Plymouth Savings Bank. While residing at Eggbuckland, he and his second wife, Esther, whom he had married in 1883, had three children, of which the two sons were Henry Elliott Turner, born in 1886, and Arthur Charles Turner, born in 1888. The Reverend Charles Edgar Turner died on February 6th 1901 at the age of 74. He was survived by his widow, two sons and a daughter from his first marriage and three sons and a daughter from his second. At his funeral his coffin was borne by twelve farmers and farmers' sons, namely Messrs R Neal, F Neal, W Neal, J White, G Partridge, R Bull, T Dodge, C Hannaford, G Hannaford, C Watkins, F Watkins and W Clifton. In addition to the Mayor of Plymouth, Mr R Risdon, and the local gentry and clergy,the children from Eggbuckland National School also attended, with their mistress, Miss Hannaford. His youngest son, Mr Arthur Charles Turner, went on to become a Prominent Citizen of Plymouth in his own right.
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