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SHARON TURNER (1768-1847)

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 479 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SHARON TURNER (1768-1847)  ,
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English historian, was born in Pentonville,
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London, on the 24th of September 1768 . His parents came from
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Yorkshire . He was educated at a private school kept by Dr Davis in Pentonville, and was articled to a
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solicitor in the Temple in 1783, and when his master died in 1789 he continued the business . He remained in business at first in the Temple, and later in Red Lion Square till 1829, when failing
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health compelled him to retire . He settled for a time at Winchmore Hill, but afterwards returned to London, and died in his son's house on the 13th of
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February 1847 . In early boyhood he had been attracted by a
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translation of the "
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Death
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Song of Ragnar Lodbrok," and was led by this boyish
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interest to make a study of early English
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history in Anglo-Saxon and Icelandic
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sources . He devoted all the time he could spare from his business to the study of Anglo-Saxon documents in the
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British Museum . The material was abundant and had hitherto been neglected . When the first
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volume of his History of England from the earliest times to the Norman
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Conquest appeared in 1799, it was at once recognized as a
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work of equal novelty and value . The
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fourth volume appeared in 1805 . He also published a continuation (History of England during the
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Middle Ages), a
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Modern History of England, a Sacred History of the
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World, and a volume on Richard III . (1845), and he was the author of
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pamphlets on the
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copyright
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laws (1813) .

His son,

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Sydney Turner (1814-1879), educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, took orders, was known as a strong partisan of reformatory
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schools, and died rector of Hempstead in Gloucestershire .

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