| AdminHistory | Dawson Turner (18 October 1775 – 21 June 1858) was an English banker, botanist and antiquary.
Turner was born on 18 October 1775, the son of James Turner and Elizabeth Cotman. He was educated at North Walsham Grammar School (now Paston College), Norfolk and at Barton Bendish as a pupil of the botanist Robert Forby. He then attended Pembroke College, Cambridge, but did not complete his degree due to his father's illness. He joined his father's bank in 1796. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society and a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. In 1796, he married Mary Palgrave, who went on to become a portrait artist under her married name, Mary Dawson Turner. Turner died on 21 June 1858. |