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E.S. Turner

E.S. Turner wrote his first article for the Dundee Courier in 1927. He contributed to Punch for 53 years, and wrote more than eighty pieces for the London Review. His last social history was Unholy Pursuits: The Wayward Parsons of Grub Street. He died on 6 July 2006, at the age of 96.

From the London Review dated 24 June 2004

A Broad Grin and a Handstand

“With improved design was rekindled the passion for speed; road racing might be illegal but the solo ‘speed merchants’ were getting away with it. That early Lanchester which ‘sang like a six-inch shell across the Sussex Downs’ contained (in the back seat) Rudyard Kipling, a bit of a road-hog who had the nerve to proclaim that the car had at last brought a major blood sport to Britain .".". speed worship began to infect hard-headed urban councils, as one town after another began holding Grand Prix round-the-houses races, or even round-the-houses-and-into-the-trees races.” [ read more . . . ]

Selected bibliography

  • Unholy Pursuits: The Wayward Parsons of Grub Street (1998)
  • Dear Old Blighty (1980)
  • Amazing Grace: The Great Days of Dukes (1975)
  • May it Please Your Lordship (1971)
  • Taking the Cure (1967)
  • What the Butler Saw: 250 Years of the Servant Problem (1962)

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