John Turner (bishop)

John Matthias Turner (1786–1831) was an eminent Anglican priest[1] in the first half of the 19th century.

[3] He became Vicar of Abingdon[4] then Rector of Wilmslow[5] before being appointed to the episcopate as Bishop of Calcutta in 1829.

He died in post in the summer of 1831 and was interred on 8 July;[6] he had become a Doctor of Divinity (DD)[7]

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