Charles Turley

Charles Turley was the pen name of Charles Turley Smith (1868–1940), an English writer associated with light fiction and boys’ adventure stories. He was the son of the squire of Sedgeberrow in Gloucestershire, studied at Cheltenham College and Exeter College, Oxford, and later lived in Broadway, Gloucestershire.

According to The Oxford Companion to Edwardian Fiction, he supported himself by tutoring and by writing books for boys. That background shows in works such as Godfrey Marten, Schoolboy and Godfrey Marten, Undergraduate, which draw on school and university life. He also wrote The Voyages of Captain Scott, showing a later interest in retelling stories of exploration for younger readers.

Later in life he moved to London and then to Mullion in Cornwall, reportedly because of weak health. No suitable confirmed portrait image was found from the pages available during this search, so the profile image is left blank.