Miss Dora Turnor
(1858-1899)
9 July 1861

Volume 4, page 190, sitting number 4830.

Born in 1858 at Stoke Rochford Hall in Lincolnshire, Dora Agnes Caroline Turnor was the daughter of Christopher Turnor, who had served as the Member of Parliament for Lincolnshire from 1841 to 1847. Her mother was Lady Caroline née Finch-Hatton, daughter of George Finch-Hatton, the 10th Earl of Winchilsea.

On 25 July 1889 at St Mary's The Bolton in Kensington she married Benjamin Bloomfield Trench of Loughton Moneygall in King's County (now County Offaly), a stockbroker born in Ireland in 1847. 

The couple appear on the 1891 census living at 8 Bolton Gardens in Kensington with their 10-month-old daughter Sheelah Georgiana Bertha Trench. Also present on the night of the census were six servants, including a butler. Another daughter, Theodora Caroline Trench, was born later that year. 

Mrs Dora Trench 'of Loughton, Kings-county, Ireland' died, aged 40, on 7 April 1899 at 'Glebelands,' Ascot, Berkshire. The cause of death was 'Influenza / Broncho pneumonia.' She left an estate valued at £18,140.