Edwin Turner (politician), Date of Birth, Date of Death
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Australian politician
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About Edwin Turner (politician)
- Edwin Woodward Turner (3 July 1849 – 4 September 1913) was an Australian politician. He was born in Western Australia to farmer Thomas Turner and Elizabeth Heppingstone.
- He and his father moved to Victoria in 1852, and he worked as a surveyor for the Lands Department.
- On 30 August 1873 he married Josephine Leahy, with whom he had ten children.
- Around 1877 he moved to New South Wales, working once again as a public surveyor.
- In 1888 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the Free Trade member for Gunnedah.
- He was re-elected in 1889 but did not contest the 1891 election.
- Turner died at Gunnedah in 1913.
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