About Herbert Turner
Lived 1888 – 1968 (aged 79–80). Herbert Turner was an anglican priest.
Herbert Victor Turner (1888 – 10 March 1968) was the second Bishop of Penrith in the modern era.
Educated at Merton College, Oxford, he was successively curate at Sutton in Ashfield, vicar of St. Peter's Church, Nottingham, then St. Mary's Church, Radcliffe on Trent and canon of Southwell before his appointment to the episcopate. He was consecrated a bishop on St James's Day 1944 (25 July), by Cyril Garbett, Archbishop of York, at York Minster. He retired to Windermere after 14 years in post and died a decade later on 10 March 1968.
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Who was Herbert Turner?
Bishop of Penrith (1888–1968)
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Herbert Turner was born in 1888.
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Herbert Turner died in 1968.
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Herbert Turner was an anglican priest.
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