In 1591 Dean Thomas Turner was born to Thomas Turner of Heckfield in Hampshire in Reading, Berkshire [Map].
On 26th June 1610 Dean Thomas Turner [aged 19] matriculated St John's College, Oxford University.
On 6th June 1614 Dean Thomas Turner [aged 23] graduated Bachelor of Arts.
On 9th May 1618 Dean Thomas Turner [aged 27] graduated Master of Arts: Oxford University.
In 1623 Dean Thomas Turner [aged 32] was presented to the vicarage of St Giles' Church, Oxford.
On 20th July 1624 Dean Thomas Turner [aged 33] was awarded Bachelor of Divinity.
On 14th April 1629 Dean Thomas Turner [aged 38] was collated by Archbishop William Laud [aged 55] to the Prebend of Newington in St Paul's Cathedral [Map].
In May 1631 Dean Thomas Turner [aged 40] obtained the rectory of St Augustine's in the Gate, but exchanged it on 10th November 1631 for that of Southwark.
On 1st April 1633 Dean Thomas Turner [aged 42] was awarded Doctor of Divinity.
Before 23rd August 1637 Dean Thomas Turner [aged 46] and Margaret Windebank were married.
This is a translation of the 'Memoires of Jacques du Clercq', published in 1823 in two volumes, edited by Frederic, Baron de Reissenberg. In his introduction Reissenberg writes: 'Jacques du Clercq tells us that he was born in 1424, and that he was a licentiate in law and a counsellor to Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, in the castellany of Douai, Lille, and Orchies. It appears that he established his residence at Arras. In 1446, he married the daughter of Baldwin de la Lacherie, a gentleman who lived in Lille. We read in the fifth book of his Memoirs that his father, also named Jacques du Clercq, had married a lady of the Le Camelin family, from Compiègne. His ancestors, always attached to the counts of Flanders, had constantly served them, whether in their councils or in their armies.' The Memoires cover a period of nineteen years beginning in in 1448, ending in in 1467. It appears that the author had intended to extend the Memoirs beyond that date; no doubt illness or death prevented him from carrying out this plan. As Reissenberg writes the 'merit of this work lies in the simplicity of its narrative, in its tone of good faith, and in a certain air of frankness which naturally wins the reader’s confidence.' Du Clercq ranges from events of national and international importance, including events of the Wars of the Roses in England, to simple, everyday local events such as marriages, robberies, murders, trials and deaths, including that of his own father in Book 5; one of his last entries.
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On 23rd August 1637 [his son] Bishop Francis Turner was born to Dean Thomas Turner [aged 46] and [his wife] Margaret Windebank.
On 3rd January 1644 Dean Thomas Turner [aged 53] was appointed Dean of Canterbury.
In September 1645 [his son] Thomas Turner was born to Dean Thomas Turner [aged 54] and [his wife] Margaret Windebank.
On 10th May 1647 [his son] Archdeacon William Turner was born to Dean Thomas Turner [aged 56] and [his wife] Margaret Windebank.
On 8th October 1672 Dean Thomas Turner [aged 81] died. He was buried in the Dean's Chapel Canterbury Cathedral.
John Evelyn's Diary. 20th February 1676. Dr. Gunning [aged 62], Bishop of Ely, preached before the King [aged 45] from St. John xx. 21, 22, 23, chiefly against an anonymous book, called "Naked Truth", a famous and popular treatise against the corruption in the Clergy, but not sound as to its quotations, supposed to have been the Bishop of Hereford and was answered by Dr. Turner, it endeavoring to prove an equality of order of Bishop and Presbyter.
John Evelyn's Diary. 17th June 1683. I dined at the Earl of Sunderland's [aged 41] with the Earls of Bath [aged 54], Castlehaven [aged 66], Lords Viscount Falconberg [aged 56], Falkland [aged 27], Bishop of London, the Grand Master of Malta, brother to the Duke de Vendôme (a young wild spark), and Mr. Dryden [aged 51], the poet. After evening prayer, I walked in the park with my Lord Clarendon, where we fell into discourse of the Bishop of Salisbury (Dr. Seth Ward), his subtlety, etc. Dr. Durell, late Dean of Windsor, being dead, Dr. Turner, one of the Duke's chaplains was made dean.
