John Turton
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John Turton was born in Staffordshire and trained as a physician.
He became the doctor of King George III of Great Britain and treated that monarch during bouts of his madness. His house, Brasted Place, was designed by architect Robert Adam
and is one of the finest country houses in Kent. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in November 1763.
He died at Brasted Place and was buried in Brasted churchyard. His heavily Grecian memorial tablet in St. Martin’s Church, Brasted, Kent, features Doric columns beside the inscription and a sarcophagus. On the latter books and serpent-entwined staff. It was designed and carved by the renowned Sir Richard Westmacott, who also did within the same church a nearby memorial to Mary Turton (d.1810), which featured a “relief of a classically robed man leaning pensively on an altar ‘To Gratitude.’”
He became the doctor of King George III of Great Britain and treated that monarch during bouts of his madness. His house, Brasted Place, was designed by architect Robert Adam
Robert Adam
Robert Adam was a Scottish neoclassical architect, interior designer and furniture designer. He was the son of William Adam , Scotland's foremost architect of the time, and trained under him...
and is one of the finest country houses in Kent. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in November 1763.
He died at Brasted Place and was buried in Brasted churchyard. His heavily Grecian memorial tablet in St. Martin’s Church, Brasted, Kent, features Doric columns beside the inscription and a sarcophagus. On the latter books and serpent-entwined staff. It was designed and carved by the renowned Sir Richard Westmacott, who also did within the same church a nearby memorial to Mary Turton (d.1810), which featured a “relief of a classically robed man leaning pensively on an altar ‘To Gratitude.’”