Dawson Turner FRS FSA was an English banker, botanist and antiquary. He specialized in the botany of cryptogams and was the father-in-law of the botanist William Jackson Hooker and of the historian Francis Palgrave. Wikipedia
Born: October 18, 1775, Great Yarmouth, United Kingdom
Died: June 20, 1858 (age 82 years), Old Brompton Road, London, United Kingdom
Great grandchildren: Marie Elizabeth Hooker, Katherine Isabel Woodward, Mary Ophelia Woodward, and more
Children: Maria Turner, Maria Dawson Turner, Harriet Gunn, and more
Parents: Elizabeth Cotman and James Turner
Grandchildren: Joseph Dalton Hooker, Francis Turner Palgrave, Inglis Palgrave, and more
Books
Architectural Antiquities of Normandy
1822
The Botanist's Guide Through England and Wales
1805
Engravings of Sepulchral Brasses in Norfolk and Suffolk: Tending to Illustrate the Ecclesiastical, Military, and Civil Costume as Well as to Preserve Memorials of Ancient Families in that County
1838
Two Papers Published in the Fifth Volume of the Linnĉan Transactions. (Calendarium Plantarum Marinarum.-Catalogue of Some of the Most Rare Plants Observed in a Tour Through the Western Counties of England, in June 1799. By D. Turner and J. Sowerby.).
1800
2 extracts from periodicals, relating to Norfolk churches
1845
The Botanist's Guide Through England and Wales; Volume 2