Arthur Turner (judge)

[1] He was born at St. Lawrence, Essex, second son of the Reverend Edward Turner, vicar of the parish.

In 1673 he came to Ireland as attorney for Irish affairs to the future King James II of England.

[1] In 1682, despite his chronic ill-health, which forced him to visit England regularly to seek medical advice, he was appointed junior justice of the Court of Common Pleas (Ireland).

[1] After Turner's death, she remarried Captain Thomas Flower of Finglas, in defiance of her father's command that she should never marry an Irishman.

Her Welsh estates passed to her stepson William Flower, 1st Baron Castle Durrow.

St. Lawrence, Essex, Turner's birthplace