Gilbert Turner

Gilbert Price Lloyd Turner OBE (8 May 1888 – 1968) was a bishop in the Anglican church.[1]

Biography

The son of Major G. H. Turner, he was educated at the Collegiate School for Boys in Victoria, British Columbia and at St Augustine's College, Canterbury.[2] In 1912, he was ordained as a priest. He was a curate at St. Paul's Church, Cape Town from 1920 to 1922, and again from 1925 to 1927, then rector. In 1939, he was appointed Bishop of St. Helena. In 1959 he was admitted as an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire.[3]

Notes and references
  1. "Dedication of Window and Tablet At All Saints' Church By The Bishop Of St. Helena". Whitstable Times and Herne Bay Herald. 3 July 1948. p. 5 col D. Retrieved 24 February 2016 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  2. "1911 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription". findmypast.com. 1911. Retrieved 21 June 2016 – via Findmypast.
  3. "No. 41727". The London Gazette (Supplement). 5 June 1959. p. 3721.
  • The Times 6 November 1968


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