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]
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Stubbington House School was founded in 1841 as a boys' preparatory school, originally located in the Hampshire village of Stubbington, around 1 mile (1.6 km) from the Solent. Stubbington House School was known by the sobriquet "the cradle of the Navy". The school was relocated to Ascot in 1962, merging with Earleywood School, and it closed in 1997.
Leonard James Ashton, was an English Anglican bishop and military chaplain. He was the inaugural Bishop in Cyprus and the Gulf, serving from 1976 to 1983. He had previously spent most of his ordained ministry serving in the Chaplains Branch of the Royal Air Force, and rose to become its Chaplain-in-Chief.
The Royal Air Force Chaplains Branch provides military chaplains for the Royal Air Force of the United Kingdom.
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