Alfred Turner

Alfred Turner was born in Yorkshire c. 1873. He had a distinguished career in journalism. He worked on the Yorkshire Gazette, Leeds Daily News, Blackpool Gazette and News and in the 1890s as dramatic critic and book reviewer for the Yorkshire Post and Yorkshire Evening Post. In 1904 he became editor of the Yorkshire Evening Post in Leeds. During this period he wrote 3 volumes of poetry - "In Faery Lands Forlorn", "Grey Days" and "Songs of the Sunset", as well as a volume of prose essays "On Falling in Love". He wrote short plays for the stage - "The Angels at Mons" (with Harold Owen), "The Waterspout" (1916) and "Missing the Tide" (1917). The Yorkshire Evening Post commented on his death that "as a dramatic critic, poet, and dramatist, and as a writer of prose, coached in the language of unstudied grace and elegance, his work was greatly admired." (14 December 1922).