George James Turner, FBA, FSA (1867–1946) was an English barrister and legal historian.
Born in Kensington on 2 November 1867, Turner was the son of Catherine, daughter of the Rev.
[1] He helped the legal historian F. W. Maitland edit the Year Books of Edward II,[3] the first two volumes of which were published by the Selden Society in Maitland's lifetime (in 1903 and 1904) and the third the year after his death.
[5] He was the special lecturer for the Society for the Public Teachers of Law in 1928[3] and gave the Ford Lecture at the University of Oxford in 1937,[1] the same year that he became joint literary editor of the Selden Society's publications.
[1] He died on 14 June 1946,[5] leaving his porcelain and silver collection to Pembroke College, Cambridge.