Colin Turner, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetColin Turner
British politician
Date of Birth: 04-Jan-1922
Date of Death: 21-Mar-2014
Profession: politician
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Colin Turner
- Sir Colin William Carstairs Turner CBE DFC (4 January 1922 – 21 March 2014) was a British businessman and Conservative Party politician.The son of Colin C.W.
- Turner, he was educated at Highgate School.
- He had one sister and two half brothers.
- In 1949 he married Evelyn Mary, daughter of late Claude H.
- Buckard, Enfield.
- Together they had three sons and one daughter; 14 grandchildren and 2 great grandchildren.
- He died in 2014 at the age of 92, at his home in West Runton in Norfolk.The Colin Turner Group (founded in 1927 by Colin C.W.
- Turner as the 'Colin Turner London Ltd') International Media Representatives and Marketing Consultants, chairman 1985–1988, president 1988-1997. RAF: Served in World War II with the Royal Air Force, 1940-1945, Air Observer; S Africa and E Africa, 223 Squadron; Desert Air Force, N.
- Africa, 1942–44; commissioned, 1943; invalided out as flying officer, 1945 after air crash. Royal Air Forces Association (RAFA): 223 Squadron Association, chairman 1975-93; RAFA Enfield Branch, chairman 1979-93; Sheringham and District Branch, chairman 1994-99, president 2000-09. Politics: Enfield Borough Council, member 1956-58; Contested Enfield (East) Parliament Constituency, 1950 and 1951; Member of Parliament (MP) for Woolwich West from the 1959 general election until his defeat at the 1964 general election.
- He did not stand again at the 1966 election.
- Member of National Executive of Conservative Party, 1946–53, 1968–73, 1976–82; Enfield North Conservative Association, chairman 1979-84, president 1984-93; North Norfolk Conservative Association, president 1996-99; Conservative European Constituency Council, London North, chairman 1984-89.
- Conservative Commonwealth and Overseas Council, deputy chairman 1975, chairman 1976-82; Conservative Foreign and Commonwealth Council, vice president 1985-2008. Media: Overseas Press and Media Association, president 1965-67, honorary secretary.
- 1967, honorary treasurer 1974-82, life president 1982; Overseas Media Guide, editor 1968, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74; Commonwealth Press Union, chairman PR Committee 1970-87; Old Cholmeleian Society (Highgate School former pupils association), president 1985-86, editor of The Cholmeleian, 1982-95.
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