William Turner (Unitarian minister)

William Turner (1761–1859) was a Unitarian minister and educator who advanced the anti-slavery movement in Northern England, contributed to the development of intellectual institutions in Newcastle upon Tyne, and published sermons on a variety of topics.

[2] On 25 September 1782 he was ordained pastor of the Hanover Square congregation, Newcastle upon Tyne.

He was a chief projector of the Newcastle branch of the Bible Society, and one of its secretaries till 1831.

Among the subscribers to a volume of his sermons published in 1838 appeared the names of two bishops, who by their action incurred some censure (see Edward Maltby).

His portrait, by Morton, and his bust, by Bailey, were placed in the rooms of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle.