Richard Turner
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English Protestant reformer and Marian exile
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Richard Turner was an English Protestant reformer and Marian exile during the reign of Queen Bloody Mary. Life Born in Staffordshire, he was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, of which he became a Fellow. He graduated B.A. on 19 July 1524, M.A. on 12 July 1529, and B.D. on 27 January 1536, and supplicated for D.D. in 1552. On 25 January 1536 he was elected to a perpetual chantry in the king's college at Windsor. He was appointed by Ralph Morice, Thomas Cranmer's secretary, to be rector of Chartham, Kent, where he neglected Catholic rites.
