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Adm. pens. (age 19) at TRINITY, May 4, 1827. [2nd] s. of the Rev. George Clayton (1796) [R. of Somersby, Lincs.]. B. there [July 4], 1808. [School, Louth, and also educated by his father.] ' Matric. Lent, 1828; Bell Scholar, 1828; B.A. 1832. Ord. deacon and priest (Lincoln) 1835; C. of Tealby, Lincs., 1835. V. of Grasby, 1835-79. Changed his name to Turner on succeeding to his great-uncle's, the Rev. Samuel Turner (1772), property at Grasby and Caistor, Sept. 1, 1835. Married, 1836, Louisa, youngest dau. of Henry Sellwood, solicitor, of Horncastle, and sister of the wife of his brother Alfred. Author, with Alfred, of Poems by Two Brothers. Published Sonnets, 1830, 1864, 1868, 1873. His nephew Hallam (2nd Lord Tennyson) tells of his great sweetness and gentleness of character. Took to opium to relieve some nervous disorder. Died, s.p., Apr. 25, 1879, at Cheltenham. Brother of Alfred (1827) and Frederick (1825). (Burke, L.G. and P. and B.; Crockford; D.N.B., which gives 1830 as date of change of name.)