Born: Feb­ru­a­ry 5, 1780, York, Eng­land.

Died: Jan­u­a­ry 7, 1864, Ely House, Do­ver Street, Lon­don, Eng­land.

Pseudonym: Cri­to Can­ta­brig­i­en­sis.

Turton en­rolled at Queens Coll­ege, Cam­bridge, in 1801, mov­ing to Ca­ther­ine Hall in 1804. He earned a ba­che­lor’s de­gree in the­ol­o­gy in 1816, and his Doc­tor of Di­vin­i­ty in 1828. He was or­dained as a dea­con at Nor­wich in 1813, and a priest six months af­ter. He served as Dean at Pe­ter­bo­rough (1830-1842), Dean of West­min­ster (1842-1845), and Bi­shop of Ely (1845). His works in­clude:

• A Vin­di­ca­tion of the Li­ter­ary Char­ac­ter of the Late Pro­fess­or Por­son from the An­i­mad­ver­sions of the Right Rev­er­end Thoma­s Bur­gess, the Lord Bi­shop of Sal­is­bu­ry
• The Text of the Eng­lish Bi­ble as Now Print­ed by the Un­i­ver­si­ties
• Natural The­ol­o­gy Con­sid­ered with Ref­er­ence to Lord Brough­am’s Dis­course on That Sub­ject

Sources

Music

1. Ely
2. St. Etheldreda