Earl Winterton, in the County of Galway, is a title in the Peerage of Ireland

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. It was created in 1766 for Edward Turnour, 1st Baron Winterton

Edward Turnour, 1st Earl Winterton

Edward Garth-Turnour, 1st Earl Winterton FRS was a British politician.-Life:Born Edward Garth, he was the son of Joseph Garth and his wife Sarah...

, who represented Bramber

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 in the House of Commons

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. Turnour had already been created Baron Winterton, of Gort in the County of Galway, in 1761, and was made Viscount Turnour, of Gort in the County of Galway, at the same time as he was given the earldom. These titles are also in the Peerage of Ireland. Born Edward Turnour Garth, Lord Winterton was the son of Joseph Garth and his wife Sarah (died 1744), daughter of Francis Gee and his wife Sarah, daughter of Sir Edward Turnor, Member of Parliament

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 for Orford

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, elder son of Sir Edward Turnour, Speaker of the House of Commons

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 from 1661 to 1671. His mother was sole heiress to the Turnor (or Turnour) estates and on her death in 1744 he assumed by Royal license the surname of Turnour.

Lord Winterton's great-great-great-grandson (the titles having descended from father to son), the sixth Earl, was a Conservative

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 politician. He represented Horsham

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 in the House of Commons for almost fifty years and served as Under-Secretary of State for India

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 and as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster

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. In 1951 he was created Baron Turnour, of Shillinglee in the County of Sussex, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

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. This title became extinct on his death in 1962 while he was succeeded in the Irish titles by his third cousin once removed, the seventh Earl. He lived in Canada

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. the titles are held by his nephew, the eighth Earl, who succeeded in 1991. He is the eldest son of Noel Turnour, younger brother of the seventh Earl. Lord Winterton also lives in Canada.

The ancestral seat of the Turnour family was Shillinglee

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Shillinglee is a 18th-century house and estate in West Sussex, near the Surrey border, in between the villages of Chiddingfold and Plaistow.Built in 1785, Shillinglee was the home of the Earl Winterton and was originally a Manor of the Arundel Estate, which belonged to the Norfolk Family.Records...

, West Sussex

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.

Earls Winterton (1766)

• Edward Garth-Turnour, 1st Earl Winterton (1734–1788)
• Edward Turnour, 2nd Earl Winterton (1758–1831)
• Edward Turnour, 3rd Earl Winterton (1784–1833)
• Edward Turnour, 4th Earl Winterton
  Edward Turnour, 4th Earl Winterton
  Edward Turnour, 4th Earl Winterton was a first-class cricketer who played 25 times for Sussex CCC, without much success.-Notes:...
  
   (1810–1879)
• Edward Turnour, 5th Earl Winterton
  Edward Turnour, 5th Earl Winterton
  Edward Turnour, 5th Earl Winterton was an Irish peer and cricketer.He married Lady Georgiana Susan Hamilton , daughter of James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Abercorn, by whom he had one son:*Edward Turnour, 6th Earl Winterton...
  
   (1837–1907)
• Edward Turnour, 6th Earl Winterton
  Edward Turnour, 6th Earl Winterton
  Edward Turnour, 6th Earl Winterton PC , known as Viscount Turnour until 1907, was an Irish peer and British politician in the first half of the twentieth century who achieved the rare distinction of serving as both Baby of the House and Father of the House at the opposite ends of his career in the...
  
   (1883–1962)
• Ronald Chard Turnour, 7th Earl Winterton (1915–1991)
• (Donald) David Turnour, 8th Earl Winterton (b. 1943)

The heir presumptive

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is the present holder's younger brother Robert Charles Turnour (b. 1950)

The heir presumptive's heir presumptive is his younger brother Murray John Turnour (b. 1951)

The heir presumptive's heir presumptive's heir apparent is his son Jonathan Winterton Behan Turnour (b. 1985)