Arthur Turner (bishop)

The Rt Rev Arthur Bersford Turner (24 August 1862 – 28 October 1910 was the 2nd Bishop in Korea from 1905[1] until his death from blood poisoning five years later[2]. Born into an ecclesiastical family[3], he was educated at Marlborough College and Keble College, Oxford. After graduating he studied for ordination at Ripon College Cuddesdon before curacies at Watlington, Oxfordshire and Downton, Wiltshire. After a further four years as Senior Curate at Newcastle Cathedral he went to Korea to be part of the USPG missionary team[4]. For the next 14 years he was a devoted servant to the emergent Korean church[5]. A noted cricketer,[6], he died “whilst still at the height of his powers”[7] from blood poisoning.

Church of England titles
Preceded by
Charles John Corfe		 Bishop in Korea
1905 – 1910		 Succeeded by
Mark Napier Trollope

Notes

  1. ^ The Times, Tuesday, Feb 28, 1905; pg. 10; Issue 37642; col B Ecclesiastical Intelligence New Bishop in Korea
  2. ^ The Bishop In Korea: The Rt Rev AB Turner The Times Saturday, Oct 29, 1910; pg. 13; Issue 39416; col D
  3. ^ his father was The Rev Charles Beresford Turner, sometime Vicar of Eling, Southampton -“Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 9780199540877
  4. ^ The others being Brother Hugh Pearson, of the Society of the Sacred Mission; Dr. A. F. Laws and The Rev. G. A. Bridle- “The Church in Corea" Trollope,MN: London Mowbray, 1915
  5. ^ Lambeth Palace Library: DA24/16/1/13 Typescript notes on the episcopate of Arthur Beresford Turner, second Bishop in Korea (1905-1910) by Alfred Cecil Cooper
  6. ^ THE RT. REV. ARTHUR BERESFORD TURNER. (2008). In The Wisden Archive of Cricketers' Lives 2008. Retrieved July 31, 2008, from http://www.credoreference.com/entry/7894153
  7. ^ ”The Cross and the Rising Sun” Ion, A H: Ontario, Wilfrid Laurier University Press 1990 ISBN 0889209774
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