Editing John Turner (section)

===Education===
Turner was educated at [[Ashbury College]] and St Patrick's College, Ottawa (senior matriculation). He enrolled at the [[University of British Columbia]] (UBC) in 1945 at age 16 where he was a member of the UBC chapter of the [[Beta Theta Pi]] fraternity, and was among Canada's outstanding track sprinters in the late 1940s.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ubcsportshalloffame.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?person_id=78&searchall=1 |title=John Turner |work=UBC Sports Hall of Fame |publisher=University of British Columbia |access-date=October 6, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081211174444/http://www.ubcsportshalloffame.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?person_id=78&searchall=1 |archive-date=December 11, 2008 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.universitysport.ca/e/story_detail0401.cfm?id=2448|title=Former Prime Minister John Turner to be inducted into UBC Sports Hall of Fame|date=March 25, 2004|publisher=Canadian Interuniversity Sport|access-date=October 6, 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081211090500/http://www.universitysport.ca/e/story_detail0401.cfm?id=2448|archive-date=December 11, 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Paikin|first=Steve|author-link=Steve Paikin|year=2008|title=They still gather to honour John Turner|work=The Daily Observer|url=http://www.thedailyobserver.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1101764&auth=OSPREY|url-status=dead|access-date=October 6, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081211170432/http://www.thedailyobserver.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1101764&auth=OSPREY|archive-date=December 11, 2008}}</ref> He held the Canadian record for the men's [[100-yard dash]] and qualified for the [[1948 London Olympics]], but a bad knee kept him from competing.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/true-grit/article4284591/?page=all |title=True Grit |first=John |last=Allemang |work=[[The Globe and Mail]] |date=June 5, 2009 |access-date=October 19, 2014 |archive-date=May 2, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190502184532/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/true-grit/article4284591/?page=all |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=June 28, 2012|title=John Turner » Track Star and Prime Minister|url=https://runningmagazine.ca/uncategorized/john-turner/|access-date=September 21, 2020|website=Canadian Running Magazine|language=en-US|archive-date=November 3, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201103194858/https://runningmagazine.ca/uncategorized/john-turner/|url-status=live}}</ref> He graduated from UBC with a BA (Honours) in 1949.<ref name="highlights">{{Cite news|agency=[[The Canadian Press]]|date=September 19, 2020|title=Some highlights from the life and career of former prime minister John Turner|url=https://nationalpost.com/pmn/news-pmn/canada-news-pmn/some-highlights-from-the-life-and-career-of-former-prime-minister-john-turner|access-date=September 21, 2020|website=[[National Post]]|language=en-CA}}</ref><ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web|title=Famous Betas|url=https://beta.org/about/famous-betas/|access-date=September 21, 2020|website=Beta Theta Pi|language=en-US|archive-date=August 10, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180810042234/https://beta.org/about/famous-betas/|url-status=live}}</ref>

Awarded a [[Rhodes Scholarship]], Turner went on to [[Magdalen College, Oxford|Magdalen College]] at the [[University of Oxford]], where he earned a BA in [[jurisprudence]] in 1951, and a [[Bachelor of Civil Law|BCL]] in 1952; his BA was promoted to an [[Master of Arts (Oxford, Cambridge, and Dublin)|MA per tradition]] in 1957. He was on the track and field team at Oxford. One of his teammates was [[Roger Bannister]], who became the first runner to break the four-minute barrier in the mile.<ref>''True Grit'', by John Allemang, ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'', June 6, 2009.</ref> At Oxford, Turner was a classmate and friend of future Australian Prime Ministers [[Malcolm Fraser]] and [[Bob Hawke]], as well as [[Jeremy Thorpe]], future leader of Britain's [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal Party]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=John Turner, Canadian prime minister who fought free trade deal with U.S., dies at 91|url=https://www.post-gazette.com/news/obituaries/2020/09/20/John-Turner-Canada-prime-minister-obituary-dies-dead-US-free-trade-deal-Canadian-Liberal-Party-Brian-Mulroney/stories/202009200189|access-date=September 21, 2020|website=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette|language=en|archive-date=October 28, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201028234119/https://www.post-gazette.com/news/obituaries/2020/09/20/John-Turner-Canada-prime-minister-obituary-dies-dead-US-free-trade-deal-Canadian-Liberal-Party-Brian-Mulroney/stories/202009200189|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="darling"/> He also pursued doctoral studies at the [[University of Paris]] from 1952 to 1953.<ref name="highlights"/>