John Bowman Turner (6 July 1816 – 7 February 1892) was an English clergyman and a cricketer who played in two first-class cricket matches for Cambridge University in 1841.
[1] One source states that he was born in Clapham, then part of Surrey; another indicates his birthplace was at Clapton in Middlesex.
Turner was educated at Blackheath Proprietary School and at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
[2] He played as a batsman in his two first-class cricket games for the university, but it is not known if he batted right- or left-handed.
[2] He was ordained as a deacon in the Church of England in 1843 and became a priest the following year.