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

His son, See also:

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

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