Charles Turley

Writing under the name Charles Turley, Charles Turley Smith (1868–1940) was a British author remembered mainly for school stories for boys. Reference sources describe him as the son of the squire of Sedgeberrow, Gloucestershire, and say he was educated at Cheltenham College and Exeter College, Oxford.

After university, he lived in Broadway, Gloucestershire, where he supported himself by tutoring and by writing. His fiction includes Godfrey Marten, Schoolboy, Godfrey Marten, Undergraduate, Maitland Major and Minor, The Playmate, The Minvern Brothers, A Scout’s Son, and A Band of Brothers.

Later in his career, he also wrote popular biographical and adventure-minded books such as The Voyages of Captain Scott, Nansen of Norway, and Roald Amundsen, Explorer. Sources note that he later lived in London and then in Mullion, Cornwall, where poor health shaped a quieter life.