Turner, Mary Anne (1803–1874), artist and antiquarian

Mary Anne Turner, known familiarly as ‘Mary’, was born on 7 February 1803 and she died on 29 September 1874. ‘Miss Turner was the writer of the greater part, if not all, of the History of Caistor Castle, published in 8vo, in 1842, and which contained many etched plates by her. She was very largely instrumental in forming the extra illustrated copy of her father’s Blomefield, now in the British Museum; and to her skilful and every willing pencil, Mr. Dawson Turner, in the preface to his catalogue of these illustrations published in 1841, acknowledges himself considerably indebted. She spent her life in Yarmouth, and was devoted to deeds of charity. She died unmarried, and is buried in the churchyard there with her mother’ (Turner Family, p. 72).

The Turner Family of Mulbarton and Great Yarmouth in Norfolk, ed. Harward Turner (new ed., revised by Frederic Johnson, 1907)