Arthur Turner (bishop)

The Rt Revd
Arthur Beresford Turner
Province Canterbury
See Seoul
Appointed 1905
Installed 1905
Term ended 1910
Predecessor Charles John Corfe
Successor Mark Napier Trollope
Orders
Ordination 1888
Consecration 25 January 1905
Rank Bishop
Personal details
Born 2 December 1862
Died 28 October 1910
Nationality English
Denomination Anglican
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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
Church of England titles
Preceded by
Charles John Corfe
Bishop in Korea
1905 1910
Succeeded by
Mark Napier Trollope