Charles Turner (bishop)


Charles Henry Turner was an Anglican bishop, Bishop of Islington from 1898 to 1923.
Charles Henry Turner was educated at Highgate School and Trinity College, Cambridge. Ordained in 1869 he was appointed Curate of Godmanchester then Chaplain to the Bishop of London. Afterwards he was Vicar of St Saviour's, Fitzroy Square in 1874, transferring to St George in the East, Shadwell five years later. Appointed to be Rural Dean of Stepney in 1897 he was ordained to the episcopate the following year. He died on 13 July 1923.