Educated at University College Hospital, he served as a clinical assistant at Moorfields Ophthalmic Hospital. Most of his life was spent in practice at Timaru, Canterbury, New Zealand, where he was resident surgeon in sole charge of the Timaru Hospital. During the war of 1914-18 he served as a Capta

Born at Denmark Hill, London, SE on 28 October 1860, younger son and youngest of the four children of George Leonard Turney, needle and pin manufacturer, and Anna Neeve, his second wife. He was educated at Dulwich College and at Trinity College, Oxford. While at Oxford he had a severe attack of scar