Robin Turton, Baron Tranmire

Robert Hugh Turton, Baron Tranmire, KBE, MC, PC, JP, DL (8 August 1903 – 17 January 1994) was a British Conservative Party politician.

Turton joined the 4th Battalion of the Green Howards at the outbreak of World War II and served as Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General of the 50th (Northumbrian) Division.

He attributed his election as an MP at the unusually young age of 25 to the death of his predecessor and kinsman Sir Edmund Turton, 1st Baronet three weeks before polling day and the local Conservative association not wanting to waste its "Vote For Turton" posters.

[3] Turton was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) in the 1971 Birthday Honours[4] and on 9 May 1974, he was created a Life Peer as Baron Tranmire, of Upsall in the North Riding of Yorkshire.

Turton was cousin twice removed of Peter Bottomley, who became Father of the House after the 2019 general election.