Dawson Turner

Dawson Turner. Engraving by A. Fox after MW Sharp

Dawson Turner (born October 18, 1775 in Great Yarmouth , † June 21, 1858 in London ) was a British banker, antiquarian and naturalist ( botanist ). Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Turner ".

Life

Turner was the son of a bank owner and his mother Elizabeth Cotman was the daughter of the Mayor of Yarmouth. Turner was studying at Cambridge, but had to drop out after his father was dying and he joined the family's bank in 1796. In the same year he married Mary Palgrave. After the death of his wife in 1850, he married again and moved to London (Old Brompton).

He also dealt scientifically with botany and published several botanical books and in the Annals of Botany. On June 28, 1801, Turner, nicknamed Theodotus II, was elected a member ( matriculation no. 1016 ) of the Leopoldina . elected. In 1802 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society and in 1816 a foreign member of the Swedish Academy of Sciences .

From 1820 he turned to antiquarian interests, learned drawing with his children from John Sell Cotman , with whom he also traveled to Normandy, which led to the publication of the book Architectural Antiquities of Normandy (1822) with illustrations by Cotman.

He was the grandfather of Joseph Dalton Hooker since his eldest daughter married William Jackson Hooker .

Honors

According to him, the moss genus Dawsonia R.Br. and the algae genus Turner Ella F.Schmitz named.

Fonts

Synopsis of British Fuci 1802
Muscologia Hibernicae Spicilegium, 1804
with Lewis Weston Dillwyn : Botanist's Guide through England and Wales 1805

literature

George Simonds Boulger: Entry in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , Online

Web links

Author entry and list of described plant names for Dawson Turner at the IPNI

References and comments

^ Dawson Turner's membership entry at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on June 18, 2016.
↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - Extended Edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .

personal data
SURNAME	Turner, Dawson
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Theodotus II
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British botanist and banker
DATE OF BIRTH	October 18, 1775
PLACE OF BIRTH	Great Yarmouth
DATE OF DEATH	June 21, 1858
Place of death	London

[1] Dawson Turner's membership entry at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on June 18, 2016.

[Burkhardt_2018-2] Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - Extended Edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .