John Turner (bishop) explained

John Matthias Turner (1786–1831) was an eminent Anglican priest^[1] in the first half of the 19th century.^[2]

He was the son of Thomas Turner of Oxford, and matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford in 1801, aged 15, graduating B.A, in 1804 and M.A. in 1807.^[3] He became Vicar of Abingdon^[4] then Rector of Wilmslow^[5] before being appointed to the episcopate as Bishop of Calcutta in 1829. He died in post in the summer of 1831 and was interred on 8 July;^[6] he had become a Doctor of Divinity (DD)^[7]

Notes and References

1. [The Times]
2. http://anglicanhistory.org/india/chatterton1924/27.html Anglican History
3. [s:Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Turner, John Matthias]
4. [The Morning Post]
5. The Bury and Norwich Post: Or, Suffolk and Norfolk Telegraph, Essex, Cambridge, & Ely Intelligencer (Bury Saint Edmunds, England), Wednesday, 25 February 1829; Issue 2435. 19th Century British Library Newspapers: Part II
6. Births, Deaths, Marriages and Obituaries . The Sheffield Independent, and Yorkshire and Derbyshire Advertiser (Sheffield, England), Saturday,1831; Issue 554. 19th Century British Library Newspapers: Part II
7. [The Times]