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- Birth nameJohn Napier Wyndham Turner
- John Turner was born on June 7, 1929 in Richmond, Surrey, England, UK. He was married to Geills McCrae Kilgour. He died on September 19, 2020 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
- SpouseGeills McCrae Kilgour(1963 - September 18, 2020) (his death, 4 children)
- Lawyer, minister, head of the Liberal party, his 11-week term as prime minister (30 June - 17 September 1984) is the second shortest in Canadian history. The shortest was that of Sir Charles Tupper (1 May - 8 July 1896).
- As a Rhodes scholar in Oxford, he became friend with future Australian PM Malcolm Fraser, and was romantically linked to Princess Margaret. His stepfather Frank Mackenzie Ross (Glasgow,1891-1971) was later Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia.
- His wife Geills McCrae Kilgour was the great niece of of physician Col. John McCrae who wrote "In Flanders Fields".
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