Joseph Turner (priest)

For other people named Joseph Turner, see Joseph Turner (disambiguation).

Joseph Turner by George Dawe

Joseph Turner (1745 – 3 August 1828) was a British academic and clergyman.

Turner was born in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. He entered Pembroke College, Cambridge in 1763 at age 17, and graduated B.A. (Senior Wrangler[1]) in 1767, M.A. in 1770, D.D. (per lit. reg.) in 1785.[2]

He was Senior Tutor of Pembroke College in 1773, when William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham wrote to him to enter his son William Pitt the Younger at Pembroke aged 14,[1] and acted as one of Pitt the Younger's tutors.[3]

He was Master of Pembroke College from 1784 to 1828, and Dean of Norwich from 1790 to 1828.

He was a Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University in 1785–6 and 1805–6.

His only son was William Hamilton Turner, who became vicar of Banwell, Somerset.[4]

  1. ^ a b Neale, Charles Montague (1907). The senior wranglers of the University of Cambridge, from 1748 to 1907. With biographical, & c., notes. Bury St. Edmunds: Groom and Son. p. 18. Retrieved 4 March 2011.
  2. ^ "Turner, Joseph (TNR763J)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  3. ^ Hague, William (2004). William Pitt the Younger. Harper Collins. pp. 26–27.
  4. ^ "Turner, William Hamilton (TNR819WH)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.