Hannah Sarah Turner was born on 14 March 1808. She married Thomas Brightwen at St Nicholas's church, Yarmouth, on 24 August 1839. The couple had just one child, Thomas Edward Palgrave Brightwen, born on 4 April 1843, who died in his third year on 22 March 1846. Hannah died at the age of 73 on 2 March 1882.
‘Mrs. Thomas Brightwen, as Miss H. S. Turner, made a number of drawings, which were after-wards privately issued with the title, “Sixty Portraits from Drawings on stone, after unedited originals, by Miss H. S. Turner: 20 copies printed and the drawings effaced—not published.” This volume was issued about 1845. She and her sister Mary Ann Turner, also made the drawings for the “Outlines in lithography, from a small collection of pictures—for private circulation—1840, Great Yarmouth.” The volume contains 51 plates, of pictures then in Mr. Dawson Turner’s possession’ (Turner Family, p. 76).
Charles James Monk was born at Peterborough in 1824, the son of James Henry Monk and Jane Smart Monk, née Hughes. He attended Eton and was admitted a pensioner at Trinity College, Cambridge, on 9 July 1842, becoming a Fellow Commoner on 18 October 1843. He was Browne Medallist in 1845 and graduated BA in 1847 and MA in 1850. In 1850 he married Julia Ralli. Monk was admitted at Lincoln’s Inn in 1845 and called to the Bar in 1855. In the latter year his father made him Chancellor of Bristol and Vice-Chancellor of Gloucester – he became Chancellor of Gloucester in 1859 – holding both Chancellorships until 1885. In April 1859 he was elected Liberal MP for Gloucester, but was unseated on petition. He represented the constituency from 1865 to 1885 and from 1895 until just before his death in 1900.
Julia Monk was born in 1860, the daughter of C J Monk. She died, unmarried, in 1951. Throughout the Second World War she worked for the WVS in London, although she was already in her eightieth year when war broke out.
See O.13.19, No. 112, and O.13.20, No. 3. The London and County Directory of 1811 lists a Mrs Blackwell at 6 Seymour Place, Mayfair. She may have been connected with the engraver Charles Theodosius Heath, who later lived at that address. Mrs Blackwell wrote to Dawson Turner in 1820 in connection with George Graham Blackwell (d. 1838), then at Oxford, who paid a visit to the Turners during the long vacation of that year.