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Turnour

Turnour may refer to:

  • Edward Garth-Turnour, 1st Earl Winterton (1734–1788), British politician
  • Edward Turnour, 4th Earl Winterton (1810–1879), first-class cricketer who played 25 times for Sussex CCC
  • Edward Turnour, 5th Earl Winterton (1837–1907), Irish peer and cricketer
  • Edward Turnour, 6th Earl Winterton PC (1883–1962), Irish peer and British politician
  • Edward Turnour (speaker) (1617–1676), Speaker of the House of Commons of England
  • George Turnour, British civil servant, scholar and a historian
  • Jim Turnour (born 1966), the Australian Labor Party MP for the division of Leichhardt
  • Turnour Island, in the Johnstone Strait region of the Central Coast of British Columbia

Usage examples of "turnour".

Sir Turnour is a braw fellow, but three to one is heavy odds, and these three are not weaklings.

Sir Turnour is a master whip, and in Norfolk he can command what horseflesh he wants.

The place was ugly as a brickyard and cold as a tomb, and it had a character, too, which Sir Turnour was conscious of but could not define.

Few men would have dared to take a coach along such a road at the speed at which Sir Turnour took it, the more so as the team was not running sweetly.