William Turner

Botanist, Author

1508 – 1568

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Who was William Turner?

William Turner MA was an English divine and reformer, a physician and a natural historian. He studied medicine in Italy, and was a friend of the great Swiss naturalist, Conrad Gessner. He was an early herbalist and ornithologist, and it is in these fields that the most interest lies today.

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Born
1508
Morpeth
Profession
Education
  • Pembroke College, Cambridge
Lived in
  • Morpeth
Died
Jul 13, 1568
London

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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