Lawrence Turner

Lawrence Turner (30 December 1908 – 17 December 1977) was a British Conservative Party politician and a former officer in the Royal Artillery during the Second World War. During the war, he spent three years as a prisoner of war of the Japanese, where he used his time to give lectures on politics. After the war, he pursued a career in politics and was elected as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Oxford. However, his support for British intervention in Suez led to his resignation from the Conservative Party. Turner came from a family with roots in Goring-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, and was the grandson of author George Grossmith. He attended Radley College, the University of Reading, and Exeter College, University of Oxford. Turner later became the managing director of his family's paint and varnish business.