Joseph Turner
British academic and clergyman
About Joseph Turner
Lived 1746 – 1828 (aged 81–82).
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 ) in 1767, M.A. in 1770, D.D. (per lit. reg.) in 1785.
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,
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.
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British academic and clergyman
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Joseph Turner was born in 1746.
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Joseph Turner died in 1828.
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· DBpedia: Joseph Turner (priest)
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