Arthur Beresford Turner

The Rt Rev Arthur Bersford Turner (24 August 1862 – 28 October 1910 was the 2nd Bishop in Korea from 1905 [The Times, Tuesday, Feb 28, 1905; pg. 10; Issue 37642; col B "Ecclesiastical Intelligence New Bishop in Korea"] until his death from blood poisoning five years later ["The Bishop In Korea: The Rt Rev AB Turner" The Times Saturday, Oct 29, 1910; pg. 13; Issue 39416; col D ] . Born into an ecclesiastical family [his father was "The Rev Charles Beresford Turner", sometime Vicar of Eling, Southampton -“Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 9780199540877] , 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. After a further four years as "Senior Curate" at Newcastle Cathedral he went to Korea to be part of the USPG missionary team [The others being Brother Hugh Pearson, of the "Society of the Sacred Mission"; Dr. A. F. Laws and The Rev. G. A. Bridle- “The Church in Corea" Trollope,MN: London Mowbray, 1915] . For the next 14 years he was a devoted servant to the emergent Korean church [Lambeth Palace Library: DA24/16/1/13 Typescript notes on the episcopate of Arthur Beresford Turner, second Bishop in Korea (1905-1910) by "Alfred Cecil Cooper" ] . A noted cricketer, [ THE RT. REV. ARTHUR BERESFORD TURNER. (2008). In The Wisden Archive of Cricketers' Lives 2008. Retrieved July 31, 2008, from http://www.credoreference.com/entry/7894153 ] , he died “whilst still at the height of his powers” [”The Cross and the Rising Sun”Ion, A H: Ontario, Wilfrid Laurier University Press 1990 ISBN 0889209774] from blood poisoning.

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