Arthur Turner (bishop)

The Right Reverend

Arthur Turner
ProvinceCanterbury
SeeSeoul
Appointed1905
Installed1905
Term ended1910
PredecessorCharles John Corfe
SuccessorMark Napier Trollope
Orders
Ordination1888
Consecration25 January 1905
RankBishop
Personal details
Born2 December 1862
Died28 October 1910
NationalityEnglish
DenominationAnglican
Alma mater

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.[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.

  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. ^ "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.
  5. ^ 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
  6. ^ 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
  7. ^ "Consecration of bishops". Church Times. No. 2192. 27 January 1905. p. 99. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 5 March 2021 – via UK Press Online archives.
  8. ^ "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.
  9. ^ Arthur Beresford Turner. (2008). In The Wisden Archive of Cricketers' Lives 2008. Retrieved July 31, 2008, from http://www.credoreference.com/entry/7894153
  10. ^ The Cross and the Rising Sun, Ion, A H: Ontario, Wilfrid Laurier University Press 1990 ISBN 0-88920-977-4