Sydney Turner (2 April 1814 – 26 June 1879) was an Anglican clergyman, Dean of Ripon[1] from December 1875 [2] until March 1876.
[3] He was born in 1814,[4] the youngest son of the historian Sharon Turner, and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge.
[6] He was Chaplain to the Philanthropic Society for the reformation of juvenile offenders from 1842 to 1857.
An Inspector of prisons from 1858 to 1867,[5] in 1858 he delivered a sermon to open the meeting of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science.
[7] He was Rector of Hempsted from 1867 to 1875, and again (after his brief spell as Dean of Ripon) from 1876 until his death[5] He died on 26 June 1879.