Sophia Adelaide TURLE

between Jul 1841 and Sep 1841 - 5th Oct 1923

Living on own means

Life History

between Jul 1841 and Sep 1841	Born in Lambeth, Surrey
10th Sep 1841	Baptised in St Mary, Lambeth.1
30th Mar 1851	Recorded in census in Westminster St Peter, London (Cloisters, Westminster, London).2
about 1860	Educated Girton College Cambridge
7th Apr 1861	Recorded in census in Westminster, London (Cloisters, Dean's Yard, Westminster Abbey, London).3
about 1880	Occupation Literary Editor
1881	Recorded in census in Westminster, London (Little Cloisters, Westminster St Margaret)
1891	Recorded in census in Paddington, London (39 Casxellan Road, Paddington)
1901	Occupation Living on own means
1901	Recorded in census in Chiswick, London (9 Priory Road, Chiswick)
29th Mar 1914	Wrote will.4
1923	Resident in 10 Queen Anne's Grove , Bedford Park, Middlesex.4
before 1923	Resident in Overdale, Munster Road, Poole, Dorset This is where Sophia's sister Caroline was living when she died in 1811.
5th Oct 1923	Died in 55 Castlebar Road, Ealing, Middlesex
Oct 1923	Buried in Norwood Cemetry, London
8th Dec 1923	Probate in Probate Division of His Majesty's High Court of Justice.5

There is a Sophia Adelaide Turle Scholarship awarded at Girton College for music
1924 GCPP Papers of Sophia Adelaide
1841-1923 Girton College Cambs Archive

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Letter from the Bursar Girton College Cambridge confirming that Sophia's will, "after a specific bequest to Newham College" gave everything else to Girton to be applied to the foundation of a musical scholarship to be applied annually for composition or organ playing or singing for women only. Also to help women who otherwise could not go to the college. ED 39/142 PRO ref

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