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{{Short description|British jurist (1833–1907)}}
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{{Use British English|date=July 2018}}
{{Infobox Officeholder
| name = Charles Arthur Turner
| image =
| image_size = 250px
| caption =
| office1 = [[List of former chief justices of the high courts of India#Madras High Court|3rd Chief Justice]] of [[Madras High Court]]
| term_start1 = 3 March 1879
| term_end1 = 1885
| predecessor1 = [[Walter Morgan (judge)|Walter Morgan]]
| successor1 = [[Arthur Collins (judge)|Arthur Collins]]
| appointer1 = [[Queen Victoria]]
| office2 = [[Judge]] of [[Allahabad High Court]]
| term_start2 = 17 March 1866
| term_end2 = 2 March 1879
| appointer2 = [[Queen Victoria]]
| birth_name = Charles Arthur Turner
| birth_date = {{birth date|1833|3|6|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Exeter]], [[England]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|1907|10|20|1833|3|6|df=y}}
| death_place = [[London]]
| children =
| alma_mater = [[Exeter College, Oxford]]
| occupation = [[Lawyer]], [[Judge]]
| profession = [[Chief Justice]]
| honorific_suffix = [[Order of the Indian Empire|KCIE]]
| honorific_prefix = [[Sir]]
}}'''Sir Charles Arthur Turner''' {{post-nominals|post-noms=[[Order of the Indian Empire|KCIE]]}} (6 March 1833 – 20 October 1907) was a British jurist mainly operational in Indian during the British colonial period, and was Chief Justice of [[Madras High Court]]. He was the first [[barrister]] judge appointed directly to the [[Allahabad High Court]] from England.

==Early life==
[[File:The grave of Sir Charles Arthur Turner, Brompton Cemetery.png|thumb|The grave of Sir Charles Arthur Turner, Brompton Cemetery]]
Turner was born to Reverend John Fisher Turner at Exeter, England. After completion of study at [[Exeter Grammar School]] and at [[Exeter College, Oxford|Exeter College Oxford]], he was called to the Bar by [[Lincoln's Inn]] in 1858.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b2NPAAAAMAAJ&q=Sir+Charles+Arthur+Turner+Justice+Madras&pg=PA634|title=The India List and India Office List for 1905|last=Great Britain. India Office|year=1819|access-date=27 March 2018|page=634}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y8AKI2nqPBQC&q=Sir+Charles+Arthur+Turner+Justice+Madras&pg=PA431|title=Dictionary of Indian Biography|access-date=27 March 2018|last1=Buckland|first1=C. E.|year=1971}}</ref>

==Career==
He was appointed [[puisne Judge]] in [[Allahabad High Court]] on 17 March 1866<ref>{{Cite web |date=1866-03-06 |title=London Gazette |url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/23080/page/1647 |page=1647 |issue=23080}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Es6x4u_g19UC&q=Sir+Charles+Arthur+Turner+Justice+Madras&pg=PA322|title=The History of British India: A Chronology|last=John F. Riddick|year=2006|isbn=9780313322808|access-date=27 March 2018}}</ref><ref name=":1" /> and served there for twelve years. On 3 March 1879<ref>{{Cite web |title=Page 1874 | Issue 24689, 4 March 1879 | London Gaze |url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/24689/page/1874 |work=The Gazette}}</ref> he became the Chief Justice of [[Madras High Court]] after Sir Walter Morgan and served since 1879 to 1885.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.hcmadras.tn.nic.in/cjlist.html|title=The former Chief Justices|publisher=Madras High Court|access-date=28 July 2018}}</ref> He held the post of Vice-Chancellor of [[Madras University]] In 1880 and 1882.<ref name=":0"/> Sir Charles Turner also served as a member of the [[Law Commission of India]] and Public Service Commission with Sir [[Charles Umpherston Aitchison]] in 1886. He was awarded [[Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire]] on 1 January 1888 on becoming Chief Justice.<ref>Great Britain. India Office {{google books|b2NPAAAAMAAJ|The India List and India Office List for 1905|page=145}}</ref> He became a judicial member as well as vice president of the Council of India.<ref name=":0" /> Turner died in London in 1907.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.allahabadhighcourt.in/event/TheCourtisLaunchedAHBraund.html|title=The Court is Launched|last=Sir Archibald Henry Braund|website=allahabadhighcourt.in|access-date=27 March 2018}}</ref> He is buried in [[Brompton Cemetery]] between the central colonnades.

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