Cecil Francis Turner (1889-1959) began his career in antiques working for the antique dealer and decorator White Allom. He began his own business in 1919, as Stuart & Turner, trading from Soho Square in London. In 1939 he closed the Soho Square premises and moved the business to Clarendon House in Newbury. The directors of the business in the 1940s were Cecil Turner and Christopher Bateman. Turner was instrumental in the foundation of the Grosvenor House Antiques Fair in 1934; he was elected to the Council of the BADA in 1929, and in 1935 became President of the BADA. He died on 13th January 1959.
Cecil Turner counted the American banker and philanthropist David Rockefeller amongst his clients.
