Roger Turner, Esq

Surname: TURNER
Style: Roger Turner, Esq
Recreations: watercolour painting, history of art (esp 17th and 18th Century), reading

Career: asst master Ashford GS 1972-77, lectr in New Testament studies La Sainte Union Coll of Higher Educn Southampton 1977-80, called to the Bar Gray's Inn 1982, in practice SE Circuit 1983-99, admitted slr 1999, slr-advocate (higher courts criminal) 1999, conslt Wainwright Cummins 1999-2000, conslt Foreman Young 2000-03, conslt Dalton Holmes Gray 2003-, conslt Family Law Dept Lawrence & Co 2011-; visiting research fell Inst of Historical Research Univ of London 1995-96; art critic Guernsey Press and Star 2005-09; contrib: New Dictionary of National Biography (articles on Jacobites and eighteenth century lawyers); contrib symposium The Earl of Burlington and His Politics 1995; pres W London Law Soc 2003-04; memb Catholic Writers' Guild; affiliate memb RIBA 2010

Books and Publications: Publications Manchester and the '45: a study of Jacobitism in context (1996), Chaplains in the Household of Lord Burlington 1715-53, in Lord Burlington - The Man and His Politics: Questions of Loyalty (1998); author of various exhbn reviews