Samuel Turner (informer)

Samuel Turner (1765–1807)^[1] was an Irish barrister, a Protestant supporter of the United Irishmen in Newry who in 1797 escaped to the European continent, changed loyalties, and informed the British and Irish authorities of United Irish activity and personnel in Ireland, Hamburg, and Paris.

^ Date of death as given in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Turner [alias Richardson], Samuel (1765–1807), informer by C. L. Falkiner, rev. Nancy J. Curtin.

[1] Date of death as given in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Turner [alias Richardson], Samuel (1765–1807), informer by C. L. Falkiner, rev. Nancy J. Curtin.

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