James Turner

James Francis Turner (1829 – 27 April 1893 ) was a British clergyman and architect who served as the second Bishop of Grafton and Armidale in Australia.

Early life and education

Turner was born in Yarmouth, Norfolk in 1829, the son of Lord Justice Sir George James Turner and Louisa Jones.

In 1848 he matriculated at Durham University, where he graduated BA in 1851, licence in theology 1852, and MA in 1853. He was consecrated a bishop on 24 February 1869 in Westminster Abbey, by Archibald Campbell Tait Archbishop of Canterbury, George Selwyn Bishop of New Zealand, and six other prelates. He was vice-president of the English Church Union, an Anglo-Catholic group.

In late 1892, he resigned his post due to illness; on his way back to England, he died in Rome, aged 64, and is buried in the Protestant Cemetery, Rome.