Background
The son of a Brighton doctor, Sydney-Turner attended Westminster School and then read classics at Trinity College, Cambridge where he was a contemporary of Leonard Woolf, Thoby Stephen and Clive Bell.
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Trinity College.
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He was very well read and fiercely intellectual. He had wide intellectual and aesthetic interests: poetry, painting, puzzles and music (particularly Wagnerian opera). However, he sometimes would spend many hours at their discussion meetings without saying anything at all.
In 1917 he joined in a scheme to purchase The Mill House, Tidmarsh, the place lived in by Lytton Strachey, Dora Carrington and Ralph Partridge and which he occasionally visited.
Sydney-Turner gambled away nearly all his money on horse racing. By the end of his life he had become reduced to living in a meagre flat.
Membership
Although he did not socialise easily, he was elected a member of the Cambridge Apostles where he spoke very little at meetings Through his university friendships, Sydney-Turner became a member of the where his intellectual erudition could be intimidating.
