Identifier: historicalcatalo00fryf (find matches)
Title: A historical catalogue of the pictures, herse-cloths & tapestry at Merchant taylors' hall with a list of the sculptures & engravings
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Fry, Frederick Morris Merchant Taylors' Company
Subjects: Merchant Taylors' Company
Publisher: London, Chapman and Hall
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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amentation. From these it is evident that he was a terror toevildoers and a stern censor of morals. Buried at Kirkleatham.His tomb, now in the Turner Mausoleum adjoining the Church,is an altar tomb without an effigy and bears the following inscrip-tion : 6 Here lieth buried the body of Sir William Turner, knight,alderman of London, of which he was Lord Mayor inthe year 1669, and the same year President of the twoHospitals of Bridewell and Bethlehem. Besides his 1 Now administered under a scheme of the Charity Commissioners, dated 1886. 2 He was known as the u Bachelor Lord Mayor, and from broadsheets to befound in the British Museum it appears that during his mayoralty he gave morethan one entertainment to the noble Company of Bachelors. Lord Braybrookein his edition of Pepys makes the mistake of describing Turners eldestbrother, Sergeant Turner, as his son. Sergeant Turner was born 1612. Pepysfrequently alludes to him as his cousin, he having married Jane Pepys, of Cleake,Norfolk. 64
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great bounty to his relations, he built also a Hospitalin this town and settled a valuable estate on it, for themaintenance of XL poor people, aged and children,over whom he appointed a chaplain, a master and amistress, with a liberal salary to each. This he sofinished 16 years before his death, Anno 1676. Hewas born 12th Sept., 1615 ; died 9th Feb., 1692, aged77 years 5 months wanting 3 dayes ; and by his owndirection he was buried in this place amongst thepoor of his hospital—the witnesses of his piety,liberality, and humility.The fine estate of Kirkleatham was bought by Turners fatherand mother in 1623, and never belonged to Sir William, butpassed to his eldest brother, Sergeant Turner, and his heirs. Thefamily became extinct in 1810. In the mansion is a half-lengthportrait of the Lord Mayor in his robes. The Almshouses, School, Chapel, Library and Museum arenear the mansion and form a quadrangle with entrance gates onone side. Only a portion was built in Turners lifetime. Aninsc

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