Philip William Turner (3 December 1925 – 7 January 2006)[1] was an English writer best known for his children's books set in the fictional town of Darnley Mills (1964–1977).
[2] Born in Rossland, British Columbia, Canada on 3 December 1925 to English parents from Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, Philip Turner was brought to England in 1926.
After being trained for ordination at Ripon Hall, Turner was ordained deacon in 1951 and priest in 1952[3] and served in parishes in Armley,[4] Crawley and Northampton.
Set in the fictional town of Darnley Mills in North East England, Colonel Sheperton's Clock involves a schoolboy mystery woven into an account of a boy's surgery to heal a disabled leg.
Four sequels told more stories of the three heroes of the first book and another four created Darnley Mills local history from the nineteenth century to the Second World War.