Edward Tracy Turnerelli

Edward Tracy Turnerelli (13 October 1813 - 24 January 1896) was a British artist, travel writer and Conservative activist.[1]

He was born in London to the sculptor Peter Turnerelli. He studied modelling under his father and at the Royal Academy, before travelling to Russia in 1836.[1] Under the patronage of Tsar Nicholas I, Turnerelli toured Russia for 18 years before turning to England in 1854.[1] He married Martha Hankey, which gave him an independent income, and spent the rest of his life campaigning for the Conservatives.[1]

In the aftermath of Lord Beaconsfield's triumphant return from the Congress of Berlin in 1878, Turnerelli organised the "People's Tribute" to him. 52,800 working men from 115 towns subscribed to a fund that paid for a 22-carat gold Roman wreath that was to crown Beaconsfield at a ceremony in the Crystal Palace.[2] However, Beaconsfield declined the tribute.[2]

Works
  • Tales of the Rhenish Chivalry (1835).
  • Kazan, the Ancient Capital of the Tartar Khans (1854).
  • What I know of the late Emperor Nicholas (1855).
  • A Night in a Haunted House (1859).
  • Memories of a Life of Toil, or the Autobiography of the Old Conservative (1884).

Notes
  1. Freeman Marius O'Donoghue, 'Turnerelli, Edward Tracy', Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 57.
  2. Jonathan Parry, 'Disraeli and England', The Historical Journal, Vol. 43, No. 3 (Sep., 2000), pp. 700-701, p. 727.
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