William Turner (Australian politician)


William Turner was an English-born Australian politician.
He was born in Wickham in Durham to bootmaker William Turner and Ann White. He migrated to Victoria in 1857 and worked on the goldmines. On 15 February 1861 he married Margaret Elliott, with whom he had five children. He ran unsuccessfully for the Victorian Legislative Assembly in 1871, and around 1873 moved to Wallsend. In 1877 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Northumberland, supported by the Political Reform League; he was defeated later that year. He was re-elected in 1880, but was forced to resign due to financial difficulties in 1881. From 1882 to 1887 he was a school attendance officer, and he then worked as a horticulturist at Belmore. Turner retired in 1903 and died at Hurstville in 1916.