[2] Like his father, he became a merchant in London, a Director and sometime Chairman of the East India Company.
He served a year as the High Sheriff of Oxfordshire in 1732.
In 1718 he married Mary Page, the daughter of Sir Gregory Page, 1st Baronet, who was a "merchant prince" with great wealth from the British East India Company.
[1] Both Turner and his father-in-law invested in the South Sea Company, but when the company's stock had risen in price in the South Sea Bubble, they sold their shareholdings at a profit before the price crashed in 1720.
[3] He died in 1735 and was succeeded by his son Sir Edward Turner, 2nd Baronet.