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]
Arthur Turner | |
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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 |
Alma mater |
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.[4]
After a further four years as senior curate at Newcastle Cathedral he went to Korea to be part of the USPG missionary team.[5] For the next 14 years he was a devoted servant to the emergent Korean church.[6] 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;[7] and served as missionary "Bishop in Corea" until he died in post.[8] A noted cricketer,[9] he died "whilst still at the height of his powers"[10] from blood poisoning.
References
edit- ^ The Times, Tuesday, Feb 28, 1905; pg. 10; Issue 37642; col B Ecclesiastical Intelligence New Bishop in Korea
- ^ The Bishop In Korea: The Rt Rev AB Turner The Times Saturday, Oct 29, 1910; pg. 13; Issue 39416; col D
- ^ 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
- ^ "Ordinations on Sunday last". Church Times. No. 1323. 1 June 1888. p. 486. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 5 March 2021 – via UK Press Online archives.
- ^ 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
- ^ Cadbury Research Library, University of Birmingham: DA24/16/1/13 Typescript notes on the episcopate of Arthur Beresford Turner, second Bishop in Korea (1905-1910) by Alfred Cecil Cooper
- ^ "Consecration of bishops". Church Times. No. 2192. 27 January 1905. p. 99. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 5 March 2021 – via UK Press Online archives.
- ^ "in memoriam. Bishop Turner, of Corea". Church Times. No. 2493. 4 November 1910. p. 620. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 5 March 2021 – via UK Press Online archives.
- ^ Arthur Beresford Turner. (2008). In The Wisden Archive of Cricketers' Lives 2008. Retrieved July 31, 2008, from http://www.credoreference.com/entry/7894153
- ^ The Cross and the Rising Sun, Ion, A H: Ontario, Wilfrid Laurier University Press 1990 ISBN 0-88920-977-4