| Sir Charles Turner, Bt | |
| Primeminister: | Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey |
| Term Start: | 1768 |
| Term End: | 1783 |
| Alongside: | Lord John Cavendish |
| Predecessor: | Sir George Armytage, Bt Robert Fox-Lane |
| Successor: | The Viscount Galway Lord John Cavendish |
| Constituency Mp: | York |
| Birth Date: | 5 November 1727 |
| Birth Place: | Kirkleatham, in present day Redcar and Cleveland, England |
| Death Place: | Kirkleatham |
| Residence: | Kirkleatham Hall, England |
| Nationality: | British |
| Education: | Beverley Grammar School |
| Alma Mater: | Trinity College, Cambridge |
| Parents: | Jane Bathurst William Turner |
| Spouse: | |
Sir Charles Turner, 1st Baronet (11 November 1727 – 26 October 1783) was a British politician and Lord Mayor of York.
Turner was the son and heir of Jane (née Bathurst) Turner and William Turner, of Kirkleatham, in present-day Redcar and Cleveland, England.[1] His father was the second son of Charles Turner and his mother was the daughter of Charles Bathurst, Esq. of York. Along with his aunts, Mary (née Bathurst) Sleigh and Frances (née Bathurst) Forster, his mother was the heiress of her brother, Charles Bathurst, Esq. of Skutterskelfe Hall and Arkendale.
He was educated at Beverley Grammar School, and admitted to the Inner Temple in 1744; he also entered Trinity College, Cambridge in 1745.
He was High Sheriff of Yorkshire for 1759 to 1760. From 21 March 1768 to 17 November 1783, he was Member of Parliament for York. He was Lord Mayor of York for 1772.[2]
Turner was created Baronet, 8 May 1782.
He married twice: firstly to Elizabeth Wombwell, a daughter of William Wombwell, Esq. of Wombwell. After her death, he married, secondly, to Mary Shuttleworth, a daughter of James Shuttleworth, Esq. of Forcett,[3] in 1771. Together, they were the parents of one son and two daughters, including:[4]
He lived at Kirkleatham Hall,[6] and was 57 when he died on 26 October 1783. His son Charles inherited his baronetcy and the Kirkleatham estate. His widow remarried Sir Thomas Gascoigne, 8th Baronet of Parlington Hall, Aberford and their daughter Mary inherited the Gascoigne's Parlington estate. After his sons death at age 37 in 1810, the baronetcy became extinct.
Through his daughter Mary, he was grandfather of four, including Thomas Oliver-Gascoigne (1806–1842) and Richard Silver Oliver-Gascoigne (1808–1842), who both died unmarried.[4] The Gascoigne estates were, therefore, inherited by his two granddaughters: Mary Isabella Oliver-Gascoigne (1810–1891), who was married Col. Hon. Frederick Charles Trench in 1850 (parents of Col. F. R. T. Trench-Gascoigne) and Elizabeth Oliver-Gascoigne (1812–1893), who married Frederick Mason Trench, 2nd Baron Ashtown in 1852.[7]