Joseph Turner (1745 – 3 August 1828) was a British academic and clergyman.
Turner was born in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. He entered Pembroke College, Cambridge in 1763 at age 17, and graduated B.A. (Senior Wrangler[1]) in 1767, M.A. in 1770, D.D. (per lit. reg.) in 1785.[2]
He was Senior Tutor of Pembroke College in 1773, when William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham wrote to him to enter his son William Pitt the Younger at Pembroke aged 14,[1] and acted as one of Pitt the Younger's tutors.[3]
He was Master of Pembroke College from 1784 to 1828, and Dean of Norwich from 1790 to 1828.
He was a Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University in 1785–6 and 1805–6.
His only son was William Hamilton Turner, who became vicar of Banwell, Somerset.[4]
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