Earl Winterton

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Earldom of Winterton
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Arms of Turnour: Ermines, on a cross quarterly pierced argent four fers-de-molines sable. Crest: A Lion passant guardant argent holding in the dexter forepaw a fer-de-moline sable. Supporters: Dexter: On either side a lion argent, semée of fers-de-molines sable.
Creation date12 February 1766
Created by King George III
Peerage Peerage of Ireland
First holder Edward Turnour, 1st Baron Winterton
Present holderDavid Turnour, 8th Earl Winterton
Heir presumptiveRobert Charles Turnour
Remainder toThe 1st Earls’ heirs male of the body lawfully begotten
Subsidiary titlesViscount Turnour
Baron Winterton
StatusExtant
Former seat(s) Shillinglee
MottoESSE QUAM VIDERI
(To be, rather than seem)

Earl Winterton, in the County of Galway, is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1766 for Edward Turnour, 1st Baron Winterton, who represented Bramber in the House of Commons. Turnour had already been created Baron Winterton, of Gort in the County of Galway, in 1761, [1] and was made Viscount Turnour, of Gort in the County of Galway, at the same time as he was given the earldom. [2] These titles are also in the Peerage of Ireland. Born Edward Turnour Garth, Lord Winterton was the son of Joseph Garth and Sarah Garth (died 1744), daughter of Francis Gee and his wife Sarah, daughter of Sir Edward Turnour, Member of Parliament for Orford, elder son of Sir Edward Turnour, Speaker of the House of Commons from 1661 to 1671. His mother was sole heiress to the Turnor (or Turnour) estates and on her death in 1744 he assumed by Royal licence the surname of Turnour.

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Lord Winterton's great-great-great-grandson (the titles having descended from father to son), the sixth Earl, was a Conservative politician. He represented Horsham in the House of Commons for almost fifty years and served as Under-Secretary of State for India and as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. In 1952 he was created Baron Turnour, of Shillinglee in the County of Sussex, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. [3] This title became extinct on his death in 1962. He was succeeded in the Irish titles by his third cousin once removed, the seventh Earl, who lived in Canada, as does his nephew, the eighth Earl, who succeeded him in 1991. He is the eldest son of Noel Turnour, the seventh Earl's younger brother.

The ancestral seat of the Turnour family was Shillinglee, West Sussex. The titles of the earldom and original barony (despite being in the Peerage of Ireland) referred to the village of Winterton-on-Sea in Norfolk, where the Turnour family also owned land. [4]

Earls Winterton (1766)

Present peer

Donald David Turnour, 8th Earl Winterton (born 13 October 1943) is the son of Cecil Noel Turnour and his wife Evelyn Isobel Oulton. He was educated at Waterloo Lutheran University, where he graduated BA. In 1968, he married Jill Pauline Esplen, a daughter of John George Esplen, and they were divorced in 1997, then having two daughters, Michele Susan Turnour (born 1973) and Amy Elizabeth Turnour (born 1976). [5]

On 2 June 1991, Turnour succeeded as Earl Winterton, Viscount Turnour of Gort, and Baron Winterton, all in the peerage of Ireland, so that he did not inherit a seat in the House of Lords. A Canadian, in 2003 he was living in Canada. [5]

The heir presumptive is the present holder's younger brother Robert Charles Turnour (born 1950), whose heir presumptive is their younger brother Murray John Turnour (born 1951), whose heir apparent is his son Jonathan Winterton Behan Turnour (born 1985). [5]

Line of succession

Notes

  1. "No. 10090". The London Gazette . 28 March 1761. p. 2.
  2. "No. 10586". The London Gazette . 28 December 1765. p. 2.
  3. "No. 39470". The London Gazette . 15 February 1952. p. 919.
  4. Chambers, John, ed. (1829). A General History of the County of Norfolk. p. 324.
  5. 1 2 3 Burke's Peerage, vol. 3 (2003), p. 4225

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