Herbert Victor Turner (1888 – 10 March 1968) was the second
Bishop of Penrith
The Bishop of Penrith is an episcopal title which takes its name after the town of Penrith in Cumbria.
The title was first mentioned (as Pereth) in the Suffragan Bishops Act 1534 (alongside a see for Penreth – now called Penrydd – in Pembro ...
in the modern era.
Educated at
Merton College, Oxford,
he was successively
curate
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at
Sutton in Ashfield
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four miles west of Mansfield, two miles from the Derbyshire border and 12 miles nort ...
,
vicar
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of
St. Peter's Church, Nottingham, then
St. Mary's Church, Radcliffe on Trent
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and
canon
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of
Southwell before his appointment to the
episcopate
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In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance of dioceses. The role or office of bishop is ca ...
.
He was consecrated a bishop on
St James's Day 1944 (25 July), by
Cyril Garbett
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Early life
Garbett was born in ...
,
Archbishop of York
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, at
York Minster
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.
He retired to
Windermere
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after 14 years in post and died a decade later on 10 March 1968.
Notes
1888 births
Alumni of Merton College, Oxford
Archdeacons of Furness
Bishops of Penrith
20th-century Church of England bishops
1968 deaths
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