Turner, Jesse H., a Presbyterian minister, was born in Bedford County, Va., Jan. 1, 1788 ; was educated in Hampden Sidney College, Va. ; studied theologjnn the Union Seminary, Prince Edward, Va. ; was licensed by Hanover Presbytery and ordained by the same in 1813. He began his labors as a missionary in Richmond, Va. ; he subsequently preached at Fayetteville, N. C. ; Man- chester, Va. ; and in Hanover County, Va. He died March 13, 1803. He was a sincere, good man, and suc- cessful as a preacher. See Wilson, Presh. Hist. A Inianac, 1807, p. 454.
Turner, Joseph M. W., an English painter, was born at 26 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London, April 23, 1775. He became a student, in 1789, of the Royal Academy, and as early as 1799 was elected an associate of the Academy, becoming three years after a full acad- emician. In 1807 he was elected professor of perspec- tive, but failed on account of literary qualifications. He travelled in Scotland, France, Switzerland, and the Rhine countries, and paid three visits to Italy. He died at Chelsea, Dec. 19, 1851. He bequeathed a noble collec- tion of his works to the nation, and they were placed in a room in the National Gallery. Among his many works we notice, The Fifth Plague of Egypt: — Tenth Plague of Egypt: — a Holy Family. He also wrote a poem, The Fallacies of Hope. See Ruskin, Modern Painters; Thornbury, Life of Turner (Lond. 1802, 2 vols. ; new ed. 1874). — Chamhers^g Encyclop. s. v.
Turner, Nathaniel, a Congregational minister, was born at Norfolk, Conn., in 1771 ; graduated at Will- iams College in 1798 ; studied theology with Dr. Cat- lin ; was ordained over the CTiurch in New Marlborough,
Mass., in 1799 ; and died May 25, 1812. See Cong. Quar- terly, 1859, p. 46.
Turner, Peter, an English Congregational minis- ter, was born at Wolverhampton in 1808. His parents were Wesleyans, and it was in connection with that body that he began to labor, at the age of eighteen, as a local preacher. He continued a liberal and zealous member of tlie Wesleyan community until 1846, when he joined the Independents, and in 1851 accepted the pas- torate of the Independent Church at Evesham, Worces- tershire. In 1850 he removed to Southampton, and labored with the Congregational Church until his death, July 20, 186 1. Mr. Turner was very devoted to his peo- ple and pastoral duties, and his pulpit ministrations were highly prized by all who knew him. See (Lond.) Cong. Year-book, 1802, p. 207.
Turner, Samuel Hulbeart, D.D., an eminent Episcopal clergyman and scholar, was born in Phila- delphia, Pa., Jan. 23, 1790, and graduated at the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania in 1807. He was ordained deacon in 1811, and priest in 1814; was pastor of a church at Chestertown, Md., from 1812 to 1817; and was elected professor of historic theology in the General Episcopal Seminary, New York, Oct. 8, 1818. He con- tinued with the institution during its stay in New Haven, Conn., and returned with it to New York in 1821. On Dec. 19 he took the chair of Biblical learn- ing and interpretation of Scripture, in which he contin- ued till his death, Dec. 21, 1801. He was also professor of Hebrew language and literature in Columbia College from 1831. He was the author of. Notes on the Epistle to the Romans (N. Y. 1824, 8vo):— with Dr. Whitting- ham, Introduction to the Old Testament, transl. from the Latin and German of John Jahn (1827, 8vo) : — Lntro- duction to Sacred Philology and Lnter'pretation, transl. from the German of Dr. G. J. Planck (Edinb. 1834, 1 2mo) : — Companion to the Book of Genesis (N. Y. 1841, 8vo) : — Biographical Notices of some of the Most Distin- guished Rabbies, etc. (1847, 12ino) : — Parallel Refer- ences Illustrative of the New ' Testament (1848, 12mo) : — Essay on Our Loixl's Discourse, etc., John vi (1851, 12mo): — Thoughts on the Origin, Character, and Inter- pretation of Scripture Prophecy (1852, 12mo) : — Epistle to the Hebrews, in Greek and English (1852, 8vo) : — Epistle to the Romans (1853, 8vo) : — Epistle to the Ephe- sians (1850, 8vo). See Autobiography of Samuel H. Turner, D.D. (1862, 12mo) ; Amer. Quar. Church Rev. 1802, p. 734; Allibone, Diet, of Brit, and Amer. Au- thors, s. v.
Turner, Sharon, an English author, was born in London, Sept. 24, 1768. After many years' practice as an attorney in the Temple, he retired, in 1829, to Winch- more Hill, where he resided until a few weeks before his death, which occurred in London, Feb. 13, 1847. Mr. Turner is best known by his History of England from the Earliest Period to the Death of Elizabeth, etc. (Lond. 1799-1805). He also wrote, History of Henry VIII, etc. (1826, Ato):— History of the Reigns of Ed- ivard VI, Mary, and Elizabeth (1829, 4to) : — Sacred Meditations and Devotional Poems by a Layman (1810, 12mo):— r^e Sacred History of the World, etc. (1832, 3 vols. 8vo). See Allibone, Diet, of Brit, and Amer. A uthors, s. V.
Turner, Thomas, D.D., an English divine, was born at St. (Giles's, Hecktield, in 1591. He was edu- cated at St. John's College, Oxford, and in 1623 was presented by his college to the vicarage of St. Giles's in Oxford. Laud, when bishop of London, made him his chaplain, and in 1629 collated him to the prebend of Newintrton, Church of St. Paid, and in October following to the chancellorship of the same church. Charles I made him a canon residentiary, and appointed him one of his chaplains in ordinary, giving him the rec- tory of St. Olave, Southwark, with which he held the rectory of Fetcham, Surrey. At the request of Charles I he accompanied that prince to Scotland to be crowned.