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Philip Turner (writer) is a British writer and journalist who was born on 3 December 1925 in London, England. He is best known for his work in the fields of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Turner was educated at the University of Oxford, where he studied English literature. After graduating, he worked as a journalist for various newspapers and magazines, including The Times, The Guardian, and The Observer. Turner's first published work was a short story, "The Man Who Could Not Die," which appeared in the magazine New Worlds in 1954. He went on to write several novels, including The Sea and the Sand (1962), The Time of the Hawk (1966), and The Darkest Shore (1970). He also wrote several non-fiction books, including The Science Fiction Encyclopedia (1979) and The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997). Turner has won several awards for his writing, including the British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Novel (1966) and the World Fantasy Award for Best Non-Fiction (1997). Turner is currently 81 years old and his net worth is estimated to be around $1 million. He is married to his wife, Mary, and they have two children.

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2006

Philip and Margaret lived in West Malvern for 30 years until his death there from cancer in January 2006 aged 80. He is buried at St. Mathias Church, Malvern Link.

1971

He also wrote several books for young adults under the name Stephen Chance. The first Septimus book, The Danedyke Mystery (1971), was adapted for television in 1979.

1965

For his second novel and second Darnley Mills book, The Grange at High Force, he won the 1965 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject.

1951

After being trained for ordination at Ripon Hall, Turner was ordained deacon in 1951 and priest in 1952 and served in parishes in Armley, Crawley and Northampton. In the late 1960s he became the Head of Religious Broadcasting for the Midland Region and subsequently became a teacher at Droitwich Spa High School, chaplain of Eton College and a part-time teacher at Malvern College, Worcestershire.

1950

He began writing religious pieces in the mid-1950s and the first of his children's novels was published by Oxford in 1964. Set in the fictional town of Darnley Mills in North East England, Colonel Sheperton's Clock involves a schoolboy mystery woven into an account of a boy's surgery to heal a disabled leg. Four sequels told more stories of the three heroes of the first book and another four created Darnley Mills local history from the nineteenth century to the Second World War.

1925

Philip William Turner (3 December 1925 – 7 January 2006) was an English writer best known for his children's books set in the fictional town of Darnley Mills (1964–1977). Under the pen name Stephen Chance he is known for the Reverend Septimus Treloar mystery fiction series (1971–1979).

Born in Rossland, British Columbia, Canada on 3 December 1925 to English parents from Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, Philip Turner was brought to England in 1926. He was educated at Hinckley Grammar School in Leicestershire and spent many school holidays exploring the East Anglian fens whilst staying with his grandparents. He served his national service from 1943 to 1946 as a Sub-Lieutenant Mechanical Engineer in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, mostly during World War II. He then resumed his education at Worcester College, Oxford, whence he graduated in 1949. He married Margaret Diana Samson in 1950 with whom he had two sons and a daughter.

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