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Sharon Turner (1768–1847)
Turner, Sharon. An English historian; born at London, Sept. 24, 1768; died there, Feb. 13, 1847. He wrote: ‘History of the Anglo-Saxons’ (4 vols., 1799–1805); ‘History of England during the Middle Ages’ (3 vols., 1814–23); ‘Modern History of England,’ comprising ‘The Reign of Henry VIII.’ (1826) and ‘The Reigns of Edward VI., Mary, and Elizabeth’ (1829); ‘Sacred History of the World’ (3 vols., 1832); and a volume of miscellaneous essays, poems, etc.