Henry Ernest William "Hugh" Turner (14 January 1907 – 14 December 1995) was a British Anglican priest, theologian, and academic.
Having served his curacy in the Diocese of Carlisle, Turner spent most of the next four decades of his ordained ministry as a scholar priest.
He served as a Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve chaplain during the Second World War.
In 1950, Tutner moved to Durham in North East England, where he joined its university as Lightfoot Professor of Divinity and its cathedral as a Canon Residentiary.
[1] He studied Mods and Literae Humaniores (i.e. classics) at St John's College, Oxford,[1][2] and graduated with a first class Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1929: as per tradition, his BA was promoted to a Master of Arts (MA Oxon) degree in 1933.
[2] On 29 July 1940, he was commissioned into the Chaplains Branch of the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve (RAFVR) and granted the relative rank of squadron leader.
[3] The parish church at which he assisted during retirement was in the Anglo-Catholic tradition, although Turner himself was an evangelical Anglican.