Turner, William

  General Notes:

Worked in london at the Wembly Exhibition in 1924, and later went to Sth Africa. Went to south Africa where he caried on large building contracts employing native carpenters and bricklayers. "He married, but had no children. He and his wife lived for some time on the Isle of Wight. He was clerk of works during the buiding of the new Kensington Library which was opened by the Queen mother in 1960. He later returned to Scotland and lived his last years in Grantshouse. The proprerty there had seemingly (though more investigation is required) come to him from his unmarried aunt Ellen - Helen Turner, the younger daughter of William Turner and Mary Edgar, who died in 1922. (her elder sister Sarah Turner had died, also unmarried, in 1905, less than 6 months after her brother James. William Turner had the houses he had inherited modernised and improved (though the term is debatable) by the installation of garages; but the enterprise seems to have been less successful then he presumably hoped. He himself died in Grantshouse in 1978". His sister Annie lived in it. He died with pneumonia (had asthma) in 1978, 6 weeks before Mary Williams visited the area. His lady friend Miss Boulton continued to live in the house. "The Old Toll House" ^52,88

  Noted events in his life were:

• Occupation: Joiner, Clerk of works.

• Education: Studied at Herriot-Watt College in Edinburgh, qualified clerk-of-works. ⁵²