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Robin Turner (priest)

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Peter Robin Turner, CB, DL, QHC, AKC (8 March 1942 – 24 October 2023) was a British Anglican priest[1] and military chaplain. From 1995 to 1998, he served as Chaplain-in-Chief, and thereby head of the Royal Air Force Chaplains Branch, and Archdeacon for the Royal Air Force.[2]

Turner was educated at Dulwich College and King's College London. After a curacy in Crediton he served the RAF from 1970 to 1998.[3] He was an Honorary Chaplain to the Queen from 1991 to 1998.

Turner died on 24 October 2023, at the age of 81.[4]

References

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  1. ^ Open Charities
  2. ^ ‘TURNER, Ven. (Peter) Robin’’, Who's Who 2017, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2017; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2016; online edn, Nov 2016 accessed 20 May 2017
  3. ^ "Peter Robert Turner". Crockford's Clerical Directory (online ed.). Church House Publishing. Retrieved 20 May 2017.
  4. ^ "Robin Turner, Venerable, CB, DL, RAF". The Telegraph. 4 November 2023. Retrieved 4 November 2023.
Military offices
Preceded by Chaplain-in-Chief of the Royal Air Force
1995–1998
Succeeded by