John Turner ca.1660-1720
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John TURNER ca.1660-1720
Biographical Note
Son of Richard Turner of Uttoxeter, Staffordshire. BA Trinity College, Cambridge 1679/80, MA 1683, DD 1706. Headmaster of Colfe's Grammar School in Lewisham 1687-1704. Vicar of Greenwich 1704-1720. Prebend of Canterbury Cathedral 1717 and chaplain to George I 1717-1720. Buried in Canterbury Cathedral.
Books
Turner appoints his books to be sold in his will, and their retail sale began in London on 15 March 1721.
Sources
- Alston, R. C. Inventory of sale catalogues ... 1676-1800, St Philip, 2010.
- Venn, J. and J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge, 1922.
- Will of John Turner, Vicar of Greenwich The National Archives PROB 11/579/230.
- A catalogue of books, to be sold very cheap, at Montague's Coffee-house in Shear Lane... consisting of the entire library of the Reverend Dr. Turner of Greenwich, deceased, [London, 1721], ESTC T57542.