Arthur Turner (bishop)

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.

References

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 Charles Beresford Turner, sometime vicar of Eling, Southampton -“Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7
4. ↑ The others being Brother Hugh Pearson, of the Society of the Sacred Mission; A. F. Laws and 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. ↑ 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 0-88920-977-4