Frederick Polhill-Turner

{{Infobox officeholder

|honorific-prefix =

|name = Frederick Charles Polhill-Turner

|honorific-suffix = {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|MP}}

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|alt =

|caption =

|office = Member of Parliament
for Bedford

|parliament =

|majority =

|term_start = 3 February 1874

|term_end = 1 April 1880

|predecessor = Samuel Whitbread
James Howard

|alongside = Samuel Whitbread

|successor = Samuel Whitbread
Charles Magniac

|birth_name =

|birth_date = 14 March 1826

|birth_place =

|death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1881|08|18|1826|03|14}}

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|restingplace =

|birthname = Frederick Charles Polhill

|residence = Howbury Hall, Renhold, Bedfordshire

|nationality = British

|party = Conservative

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|children = Arthur Twistleton Polhill-Turner
Cecil Henry Polhill-Turner

|parents = Frederick Polhill
Frances Margarette Deakin

|spouse = {{marriage|Emily Frances Barron|10 February 1852}}

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Frederick Charles Polhill-Turner (14 March 1826 – 18 August 1881),{{Rayment-hc|b|2|date=January 2018}} known as Frederick Polhill until 1853, was a British Conservative politician.

Political career

After three unsuccessful attempts in April 1859, June 1859 and 1868, Polhill-Turner was elected MP for Bedford in 1874, but was defeated at the next election in 1880.{{cite book|editor1-last=Craig|editor1-first=F. W. S.|editor-link=F. W. S. Craig|title=British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885|date=1977|publisher=Macmillan Press|location=London|isbn=978-1-349-02349-3|edition=1st|type=e-book}}

Military career

Polhill-Turner served in the 6th Dragoon Guards - also known as the Carabiniers - and in 1848 became a captain. He then retired in 1852. In 1860, he became Captain of the Duke of Manchester's Mounted Volunteers.{{cite web |title=The Polhill Family History |url=http://www.all-saints-church-renhold.org/polhillfamilyhistory.html |website=All Saints' Church, Renhold|accessdate=28 January 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180129004614/https://www.all-saints-church-renhold.org/polhillfamilyhistory.html |archive-date=29 January 2018 }}

Family

Polhill-Turner was the son of former Bedford MP, Frederick Polhill and Frances Margaretta Deakin. In 1852, he married Emily Frances Barron, daughter of Henry Barron and Anna-Leigh Guy Page-Turner. Their children were Cecil Polhill and Arthur Polhill. The marriage helped restore his family fortune; her brother died without children and made Cecil his heir.

Polhill assumed the additional surname of Turner by Royal licence in 1853,{{cite web|title=Frederick Charles Polhill-Turner|url=http://www.thepeerage.com/p26693.htm|website=The Peerage|accessdate=28 January 2018}} as required by the will of his wife's maternal grandmother Dame Frances Page Turner, widow of Sir Gregory Page-Turner, 3rd Baronet.https://archive.org/details/countyfamiliesof01walf