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CHARLES DICKENS’S DAUGHTER. London, May 9. The death has occurred of Mrs Kate Perugini, aged 89, Charles Dickens's only surviving daughter.—Australian Press Association. SIR EDMUND TURTON. London, May 9. The death has occurred of Sir Edmund Turton, a member of the House of Commons. —Australian Press Association-United Service. Sir Edmund Turton, who was Conservative member of the House of Commons for Thrak and Malton Division for the past 14 years, was born in 1857 and educated at Eton and Oxford. He was a director of the North-Eastern Railway, the Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway, the London Joint Stock Bank, and the Yorkshire Insurance Company, and was chairman of the Railway Clearing House. Sir Edmund Turton took a keen interest in hunting, and since 1912 had been Master of the Bilsdale Hunt. On the death of the Countess of Milltown, whose daughter he married in 1888, he succeeded to Russborough and other estates in Ireland in 1914.
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Southland Times, Issue 20771, 11 May 1929, Page 7
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157OBITUARY Southland Times, Issue 20771, 11 May 1929, Page 7
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