Turner, Sharon, was born in London, September 24, 1768, was articulated to an attorney at the age of fifteen, and succeeded his master in the business before the period of his clerkship had expired. The intervals of a busy life he gave to hard reading and patient collection of materials, and published a meritorious History of the Anglo-Saxons (1799-1805). Other works were the laborious but badly written History of England from the Norman Conquest to the Death of Elizabeth (1814-
15-23), Sacred History of the World (1832), a volume of essays and poems, &c. Turner died in London, February 13, 1847. For the last years of his life he enjoyed a pension of £300.