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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 worked chiefly 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" and 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, also made into a film). "As a dramatic critic, poet, and dramatist, and as a writer of prose, coached in language of unstudied grace and elegance, his work was greatly admired ..." (Yorkshire Evening Post, 14 December 1922). Alfred Turner passed away at his residence, Carlton, in Scalby on 13th December 1922.