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WHO WAS WHO IN OLD PLYMOUTH

Miss VIOLET TURNER (1890-1970)

Violet Turner was born in Bexley Heath, Kent, on December 20th 1890.

After schooling at Bedford College, London, and in France, she was awarded a 2nd class honours degree in languages by the University of London.

Miss Turner began her teaching career in Wales before becoming assistant mistress at Bromley County Secondary School in Kent in 1919.

In May 1931 Miss Turner was appointed as head mistress of the Plymouth Secondary School for Girls, which became the Plymouth High School for Girls later that decade.  She started at the beginning of the academic year in September 1931.

During the Second World War she lodged at number 40 Thornhill Road.

Miss Violet Turner, who it is believed retired in the early 1950s, died at 79 Fore Street, Plympton Saint Maurice, on October 4th 1970.