William Turner (Blackburn MP)

William Turner (1777 – 17 July 1842)[1] was an English Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1832 to 1841.

Turner was the youngest of four sons of a family that arrived in Blackburn at the beginning of the nineteenth century and opened a calico printing works at Mill Hill.

In 1826 his only daughter Ellen was tricked into eloping with Edward Gibbon Wakefield, an unscrupulous fortune hunter.

At the 1832 general election, he ran for the newly created constituency of Blackburn, "almost like a bomb shell, offering himself to the Free and independent electors of both parties".

[3] Turner died at his home in Mill Hill at the age of 65 and was buried in St. Johns churchyard Blackburn.