Arthur Turner (bishop) explained

Type:Bishop
Arthur Turner
Native Name Lang:English
Province:Canterbury
See:Seoul
Appointed:1905
Term Start:1905
Term End:1910
Predecessor:Charles John Corfe
Successor:Mark Napier Trollope
Ordination:1888
Consecration:25 January 1905
Rank:Bishop
Birth Date:2 December 1862
Death Date:28 October 1910
Nationality:English
Religion:Anglican

Arthur Beresford Turner (24 August 1862  - 28 October 1910) was the second Anglican 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. He was ordained priest by John Mackarness, Bishop of Oxford, at Cuddesdon Parish Church on 27 May 1888.

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] He was consecrated a bishop by Randall Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury, in Westminster Abbey on the Feast of the Conversion of St Paul (25 January) 1905; and served as missionary "Bishop in Corea" until he died in post. A noted cricketer,[6] he died "whilst still at the height of his powers"[7] from blood poisoning.

Notes and References

  1. [The Times]
  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
  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. [University of Birmingham|Cadbury Research Library, University of Birmingham]
  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