Alexander Kingcome Turner

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1901 –

78

Who is Alexander Kingcome Turner?

Sir Alexander Kingcome Turner, KBE QC was a notable Auckland-born New Zealand lawyer and judge.

He was one of four children, all sons, born to Joseph Hurst Turner, a teacher, and his wife, Gertrude Kingcome Reid, daughter of a Methodist minister, and attended Mount Eden School and Auckland Grammar School. When he was 11, Alexander's father died, leaving the family in genteel poverty.

Turner managed to graduate from Auckland University College

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Born
Nov 18, 1901
Died
Apr 29, 2024

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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