[2] Upon arriving in Rockhampton in 1880, he worked at the local meatworks for many years where he began to take an active interest in the labour movement.
[3] Upon the resignation of James Stewart to stand for a senate seat in the 1901 federal election,[4] Turner, representing the Labour Party, contested the subsequent by-election in June of that year and defeated the Ministerial candidate, John Linnett.
[1] Turner married Louisa Langford Stevens in Middlesex in 1866.
[1] His wife Louisa died on 11 February 1882 and was buried in the North Rockhampton Cemetery.
29 March 1879; d. 1965) and they had two children, Gwendoline Ida (1911–1975) and Geoffrey Ridgewell (1918–1998).