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Extracts from the Diary of a Sussex Tradesman, a Hundred Years Ago, by R. W. Blencowe, M.A. and M. A. Lower, M.A., F.S.A., published 1859 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 11, article, pp.179-220) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2096] & The Keep [LIB/500230] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Memoir of the Rev. E.Turner, VP, by Rev. Frederick Henry Arnold, published 1873 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 25, article, pp.213-219) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2110] & The Keep [LIB/500243] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Thomas Turner, The Diary of a Georgian Shopkeeper, edited by G. H. Jennings, published October 1879 (95 pp. + xxix, Oxford Paperbacks, ISBN-10: 0192812831 & ISBN-13: 9780192812834) accessible at: British Library & West Sussex Libraries

Errors in the Sussex Archaeological Collections: Vol 19 Otehall, Vol 21 Parochial History of Hollington, Vol 25 Pedigree of Turner and Vol 28 Monumental Inscriptions, Ditchling, by F. W. T. Attree, Lieut., R.E., published 1882 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 32, notes & queries, pp.213-215) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2117] & The Keep [LIB/500250] & S.A.S. library   View Online

A Sussex Pepys [Thomas Turner], by Charles Cooper, published 1901 in The Gentleman's Magazine (vol. 291, July to Dec, article, pp.17-30, London: Chatto & Windus)   View Online

Thomas Turner, of Keymer, by C. J. Beetlestone, published 1918 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 59, notes & queries, p.127) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2144] & The Keep [LIB/500277] & S.A.S. library   View Online

The Diary of Thomas Turner of East Hoathly, 1754-1765, by Thomas Turner and edited by Florence Maris Turner, published 1925 (xxxii + 95 pp., London: John Lane) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/503556] & British Library & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Turner Trove: A Link with a Famous Sussex Diarist, by L. B. Smith and E. A. Hadley, published 1935 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. IX no. 9, article, pp.546-550) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9330] & The Keep [LIB/500180]

The Life and Times of Thomas Turner of East Hoathly. A picture of the daily life in a small village in Sussex, England … drawn from the diary of a tradesman for the years 1754-1765., by Dean Kirkham Worcester, published 1948 (Undergraduate Prize Essays: Yale University. vol. 6., xi + 73 pp., New Haven: London) accessible at: British Library & East Sussex Libraries

William Turner's "Remarkable Providences", by Lindsay Fleming, M.A., published November 1954 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XIV nos. 3 & 4, article, pp.37-43) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8232][Lib 2213] & The Keep [LIB/500216] & S.A.S. library

Philip Turner, by L. F. Salzman, published November 1963 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XVI no. 2, article, pp.37-40) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8234] & The Keep [LIB/500218] & S.A.S. library

Diary of Thomas Turner of East Hoathly, by Rowland Bowen, published 1966 (article) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16275]

Michael Turner: 19th Century Sussex Fiddler, by Vic Gammon, published 1976 in Traditional Music (no. 4, article, pp.15-22) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 6383]

Turner's Picturesque Views in England and Wales 1825-1838, by Eric Shanes, published 19 July 1979 (160 pp., London: Chatto & Windus, ISBN-10: 0701124369 & ISBN-13: 9780701124366) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Turner's Rivers, Harbours and Coasts, by Eric Shanes, published 1981 (160 pp., London: Chatto & Windus, ISBN-10: 0701125691 & ISBN-13: 9780701125691) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Ars longa, vita brevis: the Watteau study and Lord Percy by J.M.W. Turner, by Gerald Finley, published 1981 in Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes (vol. 44, article, pp.241-247)

Petworth House.

The Diary of Thomas Turner, 1754-1765, by Thomas Turner and edited by David Vaisey, published 1 November 1984 (420 pp., Oxford University Press, ISBN-10: 0192117823 & ISBN-13: 9780192117823) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 12976] & The Keep [LIB/503555] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Thomas Turner (1729-1793) was a hard-working and ingenious village shopkeeper in Sussex. In the eleven years of his diary, he recorded the minutiae of everyday village life in pre-industrial England. This edition contains about a third of the massive whole of the diary, but allows Turner to take his rightful place alongside Pepys, Evelyn, and Woodforde as an indispensable English diarist.

The Turner Family of Steyning - Seventeenth Century Clothiers of Sussex, by Janet Pennington, published June 1985 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 6 no. 6, article, pp.203-211) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9788] & The Keep [LIB/501258] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Discussion of occupation of clothier, inventories, and description of house. John Turner alias Edwards and his wife Alice had three sons, James, John and Phillip. Included is part of the inventory of Phillip Turners goods. Article covers the years 1587 - 1637 in the parish of Steyning

Thomas Turner's Diary, 1754-1765, by Thomas Turner with engravings by Peter Forster, published 1987 (Fleece, ISBN-10: 0948375159 & ISBN-13: 9780948375156) accessible at: British Library

Turner's England 1810-38, by Eric Shanes, published 6 September 1990 (288 pp., London: Cassell Illustrated, ISBN-10: 0304319538 & ISBN-13: 9780304319534) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Reverend Richard Turner (1620-1680), by Ronald Tibble, published September 1990 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 9 no. 3, article, pp.93-97) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 11999] & The Keep [LIB/501261] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Richard Turner was born 21 Dec 1620 at Fletching to Richard Turner and Joan Baker and educated at the Free Grammar School at Lewes and Magdalen College, Oxford. He was ordained as a Presbyterian priest in 1651 and held the post of Vicar of Preston until 1662 when he lost his position as a result of his non-conformist views. At his home in Plumpton he continued to preach and educate until his death in 1680.

The Diary of Thomas Turner, 1754-1765, by Thomas Turner and edited by David Vaisey, published 1994 (new edition, xxxix + 386 pp., East Hoathly: CTR Publishing, ISBN-10: 0952451603 & ISBN-13: 9780952451600) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/503555] & East Sussex Libraries

Who Were You?, by Mrs. Stella Green, published September 1996 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 12 no. 3, article, p.99) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14879] & The Keep [LIB/508810] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

The compicated lives of Mary Jane Woodrow Turner and Sarah Ann Friend

Eight Country Walks in the Steps of Thomas Turner: Eighteenth Century Sussex Diarist , by Bruce Cripps, published 1 December 1996 (44 pp., Newvista Publications, ISBN-10: 0952970406 & ISBN-13: 9780952970408) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Turner's Watercolour Explorations, 1810-42, by Eric Shanes, published 1 June 1997 (104 pp., Tate Publishing, ISBN-10: 185437222X & ISBN-13: 9781854372222) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries

One of the largest sections of the Turner Bequest at the Tate Gallery is a group made up of watercolour sketches, early studios for finished works, and finished and unfinished drawings. Although many of the designs appear to be abstract, Turner was not creating non-representational images but was employing a rapid "visual shorthand". These pictures remain among Turner's most popular works. This volume explains the creative process that underlies these images and the interpretive techniques which have been used to analyze them. Many of their subjects are identified and the pictures are arranged according to their subject-matter and historical purpose.

Turner in 1066 Country, by Eric Shanes, published 1998 (exhibition catalogue, Hastings Museum & Art Gallery)

The origins of Thomas Turner, by Roger Davey, published 2000 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 138, article, pp.191-219) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14509] & The Keep [LIB/500298] & S.A.S. library   View Online

This paper investigates the family background of Thomas Turner (1729-93), shopkeeper (mercer) and diarist of East Hoathly, and supplements the work of previous writers on the subject. It identifies a number of relatives named in the diary as members of the Ovenden family of Boarshead, Rotherfield (his mother's connections), and shows how his father John Turner alias Fann rose from illegitimate beginnings in the Groombridge area of Sussex and Kent to be himself both a mercer at Groombridge (later Framfield), and the owner of a 74-acre farm at Chiddingstone Hoath in Kent.
The diarist's paternal grandmother, Sarah Fann, later married to Thomas Bennett, is shown to have been of a Frant yeoman family with London trading connections. His paternal grandfather cannot be certainly identified, but is likely to have been from a family of farmers in the Ashurst/Groombridge area of Kent, closely related to the Turners of Alksford Farm, Withyham, by whom John Turner may have been brought up. Links are demonstrated to the Constables and Combridges, earlier mercers at Groombridge, and to John Luck of Penshurst, from whom in 1712 John Turner inherited his farm.

The Professional Rubler, by Mrs. Gillian Poland, published December 2000 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 14 no. 4, article, pp.122-123) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14881] & The Keep [LIB/508823] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

The story of Frederick Turner who married Amelia Humphrey in 1850 at Brighton

Turner at Petworth, by Nicky Ingram, published 2002 (pamphlet) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14791]

Henry Turner, Brickmaker Master 1804-1872, by Pat Bracher, published 2002 in Sussex Industrial History (issue no. 32, article, pp.2-7, ISSN: 0263-5151) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506530]   Download PDF

Valuations for The Broyle Brickyard, Ringmer and Pound Land Brickyard, Laughton

Coincidence or fate, by Bob Rayland, published June 2002 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 15 no. 2, article, pp.56-57) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15249] & The Keep [LIB/508827] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Fate played a part in this story of the Turner family

Richard Turner's automobile, by Raymond F. Walker, published December 2002 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 15 no. 4, article, pp.172-174) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15249] & The Keep [LIB/508827] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Edmund and Martha Turner emigrated from Westfield in 1849 with their three children

The birth date of Thomas Turner, by Roger Davey, published 2004 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 142, shorter article, p.150) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15489] & The Keep [LIB/500360] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Turner, by Eric Shanes, published 1 April 2004 (80 pp., Hoo: Grange Books, ISBN-10: 1840136545 & ISBN-13: 9781840136548) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Lord Egremont's dogs: the cynosure of Turner's Petworth landscapes, by Martin Wallen, published 2006 in English Literary History (vol. 73, no. 4, article, pp.855-883)

Stuck in East Grinstead, by Stan Turner, published December 2012 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 20 no. 4, article, pp.168-169) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/508975] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Until I broke with the tradition, all my researched TURNERs, as our name describes us, had earned their living in the wood trade. At school, woodwork for me was easy. I did all the required exercises to the master's satisfaction and was rewarded with an introduction to the lathe. During one session in the woodwork shop, a Maths master called in to talk to his Woodwork colleague and as he passed me working at the lathe, said "Ah, Turner, practicing your ancestral craft, I see." - and that was many years before I became an addicted family historian

J. M. W. Turner: Young Mr. Turner - The First Forty Years 1775-1815, by Eric Shanes, published 5 April 2016 (560 pp., Yale University Press, ISBN-10: 0300140657 & ISBN-13: 9780300140651) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries

A definitive new biography, deftly interweaving an account of Turner's early life with profound scholarly and aesthetic appreciation of his work A complex figure, and divisive during his lifetime, Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) has long been considered Britain's greatest painter. An artist of phenomenal invention, complexity, and industry, Turner is now one of the world's most popular painters. This comprehensive new account of his early life draws together recent scholarship, corrects errors in the existing literature, and presents a wealth of new findings. In doing so, it furnishes a more detailed understanding than ever before of the connections between Turner's life and art. Taking a strictly chronological approach, Eric Shanes addresses Turner's intellectual complexity and depth, his technical virtuosity, his personal contradictions, and his intricate social and cultural relations. Shanes draws on decades of familiarity with his subject, as well as newly discovered source material, such as the artist's principal bank records, which shed significant light on his patronage and sales. The result, written in a warm, engaging style, is a comprehensive and magnificently illustrated volume which will fundamentally shape the future of Turner studies.