Samuel Turner (1878-1955)
Sir Samuel Turner of Turner and Newall
1878 Born in Rochdale, son of Robert Turner
1881 Charles Turner 7, Helen Turner 5, Samuel Turner 3, lived in Rochdale, next door to the family of Samuel Turner
1911 Samuel Turner 33, asbestos manufacturer, lived in Rochdale with Jane Turner 34, Samuel Norman Turner 7, Margaret Turner 4[1]
1939 Director of companies, lived in Rochdale[2]
1955 Died. 'Sir Samuel Turner, J.P, of North Dean, Hughenden, Bucks., who died yesterday, aged 77, was an honorary freeman of Rochdale, Lancashire. He entered the business life of the town at the age of 18, and was chairman of the Turner & Newall asbestos firm from 1929 until 1944. In 1932, with other members of the Turner family, he presented Denehurst Park, the home of his father, to the town, and he also met the cost of three nursery schools in Rochdale. He also provided a new dental school and hospital in Manchester in 1939, at a figure then estimated at £100,000. He was knighted in 1938. He had served as High Sheriff of Lancashire and had written several books and pamphlets on political, social, and economic questions.'[3]