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The Venerable
Anthony Turney
Late Grenadier Guards
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 Anthony Turney was born in 1937 and spent four years in a Church of England children’s home before adoption by the Turney family from Aylesbury. In 1955, he joined the Grenadier Guards and was posted to the 2nd Battalion in the Canal Zone. During three years service he became a Lance Sergeant and performed ceremonial duties in London. He was discharged in 1958 with a testimonial which described his effectiveness, intelligence and initiative and forecast that ‘he should do well in civilian life’. He moved to the United States of America in 1968 and made a name for himself as an independent event producer. He was ordained in the Episcopal Church in 1996. In San Francisco he was appointed Archdeacon of the Diocese of California. His career included positions as Executive Director of the Dance Theatre of Harlem and Deputy Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington.
In 2000 he was a consultant to the United States Agency for International Development. An energetic traveller, he spent a month walking across Spain along the Camino de Santiago and bicycled three times from San Francisco to Los Angeles. Together with seven other members of the North America Branch of the Grenadier Guards Association, their ‘trip across the pond’ to attend Her Majesty’s Grenadier Day at Buckingham Palace on 26th June 2013 was one of the highlights of his life.
Anthony Turney died aged 76 in San Francisco on 4th July 2014, the 38th anniversary of his becoming a United States citizen. |
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