Arthur Beresford Turner (24 August 1862 – 28 October 1910) was the second Anglican Bishop in Korea from 1905The Times, Tuesday, Feb 28, 1905; pg. 10; Issue 37642; col B Ecclesiastical Intelligence New Bishop in Korea until his death from blood poisoning five years later.The Bishop In Korea: The Rt Rev AB Turner The Times Saturday, Oct 29, 1910; pg. 13; Issue 39416; col D
Born into an ecclesiastical family,His father was Charles Beresford Turner, sometime vicar of Eling, Southampton -"Who was Who" 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 he was educated at Marlborough College and Keble College, Oxford. After graduating, he studied for ordination at Ripon College Cuddesdon before curacies at Watlington, Oxfordshire and Downton, Wiltshire. He was ordained priest by John Mackarness, Bishop of Oxford, at Cuddesdon Parish Church on 27 May 1888.
After a further four years as senior curate at Newcastle Cathedral he went to Korea to be part of the USPG missionary team.The others being Brother Hugh Pearson, of the Society of the Sacred Mission; A. F. Laws and G. A. Bridle- “The Church in Corea" Trollope, MN: London Mowbray, 1915 For the next 14 years he was a devoted servant to the emergent Korean church.Cadbury Research Library, University of Birmingham: DA24/16/1/13 Typescript notes on the episcopate of Arthur Beresford Turner, second Bishop in Korea (1905-1910) by Alfred Cecil Cooper He was consecrated a bishop by Randall Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury, in Westminster Abbey on the Feast of the Conversion of St Paul (25 January) 1905; and served as missionary "Bishop in Corea" until he died in post. A noted cricketer, he died "whilst still at the height of his powers"The Cross and the Rising Sun, Ion, A H: Ontario, Wilfrid Laurier University Press 1990 from blood poisoning.
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