My guess for his death date is 1957 (Wrong!: it was 1960): his wife was ill in hospital and his daughter in law, Kathleen went down with the two boys who had to be sent to a local school and might have been around 7 or 8 years old, making a date of 1957.  He died while his wife, Florence, was still in hosptial with cancer.

In 1891 he and his brother Alfred were boarders at No 9 Muswell Hill, Hornsey, Middlesex with Charles and Margaret Stevens.  The two lads were both said to be scholars.  Alfred was 11 and Richard 8 and born at Hornsey, Middlesex.  I cannot clearly find their parents on this census.

On 4th August 1921 he was on the Khiva for a voyage to Singapore, amongst other places.  He went first class, said he was 39 (true), and gave his English address as 6-8 Eastcheap, London, EC1.  He said he was a merchant and was going to live in Straits Settlements.  A month later his wife Florence followed him, departing on 29th September 1921.  There is no sign of any earlier voyage on the records, which there must have been as their son Ian, at least, was born in Singapore in 1917.

On 27th February 1926, he, his wife Florence and son Graeme Rennie, journeyed to Singapore on the ship Patroclus of the Blue Funnel Line.  They travelled 1st class, he and she were both 44 (true) and Graeme was 2 1/2.  Their address in England had been 10 Bathstone Gardens, London SW5.  He still said he was a merchant.  His grand-daughter Bridget reckoned this was the trip when the family came over with her father Ian and he was put into a boarding school and not to see his parents again for 8 or 10 years.  I suspect they returned to England in the mid 1930s having retired and never left these shores again; this is particularly from stories that Ian used to tell me of his young adult life.
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TFPL, Jan 2016: The above from Peter Hamersley led to finding his entry in the 1901 census:
He was with this parents and his brother George in Colfe Rd, Lewisham, Mx was a Merchantile Clerk, born in London and aged 18.
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From Peter Hamersley:

1. The Singapore Free Press of 8th october 1919, p. 7 reported that R R Turner was first equal for the October Medal of the Singapore Golf Club.

2. The Straits Times of 17 December 1920, p.8, in the Social and Personal section:

“Mr R. R. Turner, of the nestle and Anglo-Swiss Milk Company, has gome home on leave by the Somali.”
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In 1939 they were in Andover:

Manor Farm , Andover R.D., Hampshire, England

FIRST NAME(S) LAST NAME(S) DOB SEX OCCUPATION MARITAL STATUS  SCHEDULE  SCHEDULE SUB NUMBER
Florence L C Turner 07 Nov 1881 Female Unpaid Domestic Duties  Married  96  2
Richard R Turner 24 Apr 1882 Male General Manager Nester ? Product British ?  Married  96  1
Emma Turner 02 Jan 1853 Female Bedridden Widowed  96  3
Edith Pike 16 Nov 1885 Female Nurse Companion Single  96  4

Ref: RG101/2366H/009/37 Letter Code: EECD
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His probate index:

TURNER Richard Rennie of 22 The Plantation Worthing died 1 December 1960 Probate London 1 February to Florence Louise Cecile Turner widow.  Effects £4023 4s 3d.
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Witnesses were her brothers: Jas F(rancis?) Hoare and Walter S Hoare.

Their marriage registration on FreeBMD:

Surname First name(s) Spouse District Vol Page
Marriages Sep 1912   (>99%)
oare Florence L C Turner Islington 1b 707
Turner Richard R Hoare Islington 1b 707
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