| Authorised form of name | Turner; Sir; William (1832 - 1916); anatomist and university administrator |
| Dates | 1832 - 1916 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Lancaster, England |
| Date of birth | 07 January 1832 |
| Place of death | 6 Eton Terrace, Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Date of death | 15/02/1916 |
| Dates and places | Funeral:
St John's Episcopal Church, Edinburgh, Scotland
Burial:
Dean cemetery, Edinburgh University, Scotland |
| Occupation | anatomist and university administrator |
| Research field | Anatomy |
| Activity | Education:
local preparatory school; private school run by Revd William Shepherd at Longmarton, near Appleby, Westmorland; St Bartholomew's Hospital, London. MB (1857, London)
Career:
Assistant Professor (1854), then Professor (1867) of Anatomy, University of Edinburgh; Principal and Vice Chancellor, University of Edinburgh (1903-1916).
Honours:
Kt 1886; KCB 1901
Memberships:
MRCS; FRSCE (1861)FRSC (1893); FRMed & Chir Soc |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 07/06/1877 |
| Age at election | 45 |
| Proposer | John Stenhouse; William Sharpey; David Ferrier; William Benjamin Carpenter; Richard Quain MD; Thomas Lauder Brunton |
| Caesar Henry Hawkins; George Burrows; James Paget; William Scovell Savory; Henry Wentworth Dyke Acland; Prescott Hewett; William Withey Gull; James Risdon Bennett |
| Royal Society activity | Council 1890 |
| Relationships | Parents: William Turner (1797–1837), upholsterer and cabinet maker, and Margaret, née Aldren (1793–1869).
Spouse: Agnes (1833–1908), the eldest daughter of Abraham Logan, farmer, of Burnhouses, Berwickshire (21 April 1863).
Children: Three sons and two daughters. |
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| Sources | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DSB; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series B 1915-1917 vol 89 pp xxxiv-xxxviii signed by A M |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/27853708 |
| Royal Society code | NA6470 |
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| IM/Maull/004677 | Turner, Sir William | nd |
| EC/1877/19 | Turner, Sir William: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| MC/11/73 | Letter from W [William] Turner, 6 Eton Terrace, Edinburgh, to Walter White, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society] | 9 June 1877 |
| NLB/3/76 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir William Turner, Fellow of the Royal Society | 6 March 1889 |
| NLB/3/73 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir William Turner, Fellow of the Royal Society | 4 March 1889 |
| NLB/10/195 | Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Messrs Bolas & Company, 11 Ludgate Hill | 18 October 1894 |
| NLB/19/629 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Edwin Ray Lankester, Fellow of the Royal Society, Chairman of the Zoology Committee | 13 November 1899 |
| NLB/20/60 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir William Turner, Professor Alfred George Greenhill, Dr Andrew Ainslie Common, Fellows of the Royal Society | 23 January 1900 |
| MC/19/809 | Letter from [William] Turner, University of Edinburgh, to the Secretary of the Royal Society | 1 February 1904 |
| MC/20/450 | Letter from [William] Turner, 6 Eton Terrace, Edinburgh, to [Robert William Frederick] Harrison | 4 December 1905 |
| NLB/52/712 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor Alexander MacAlister, FRS | 18 February 1916 |
| NLB/53/239 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Miss Turner, 6 Eton Terrace, Edinburgh | 07 June 1916 |
| NLB/52/726 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. William Aldren Turner; 18 Harley Street, W. | 21 February 1916 |
| NLB/53/241 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to unknown correspondent | 07 June 1916 |
| NLB/53/431 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William Church | 08 August 1916 |
| RR/9/101 | Referee's report by William Turner, on a paper 'The minute anatomy of the thymus' by Herbert Watney | 1882 |
| RR/7/495 | Referee's report by William Henry Flower, on a paper 'On the placentation of the lemurs' by William Turner | 21 April 1876 |
| RR/8/168 | Referee's report by William Turner, on a paper 'Researches on the comparative structure of the cortex cerebri' by William Bevan Lewis | 5 July 1879 |
| RR/8/146 | Referee's report by William Henry Flower, on a paper 'On the placentation of the Apes, with a comparison of the structure of their placenta with that of the human female' by William Turner | 13 May 1878 |
| RR/8/274 | Referee's report by William Turner, on a paper 'Researches on the minute structure of the thyroid gland' by Edward Cresswell Baber | 23 April 1881 |
| RR/9/289 | Referee's report by William Turner, on a paper 'The development of the arteries of the abdomen and their relation to the peritoneum' by C B Lockwood | 7 February 1885 |
| RR/10/235 | Referee's report by William Turner, on a paper 'The pectoral group of muscles' by Bertram Coghill Alan Windle | 3 November 1888 |
| NLB/3/56 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Michael Foster, [Royal Society] | 25 February 1889 |
| RR/8/145 | Letter from William Turner, to Thomas Henry Huxley, regarding a paper 'On the placentation of the Apes, with a comparison of the structure of their placenta with that of the human female' by William Turner | 27 March 1878 |
| PP/13/31 | Paper, 'The spinal curvature in an Aboriginal Australian' by Daniel John Cunningham | 1889 |
| NLB/35/339 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Charles Scott Sherrington, Fellow of the Royal Society | 17 May 1907 |
| MC/10/421 | Letter from W [William] Turner, 6 Eton Terrace, Edinburgh, to Walter White, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society] | 8 July 1876 |
| MC/10 | Volume 10 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | July 1873-1876 |
| MC/11/79 | Letter from W [William] Turner, 6 Eton Terrace, Edinburgh, to Walter White, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society] | 12 June 1877 |
| AP/37/25 | Paper, 'Examination of the cerebro-spinal fluid' by William Turner | 1854 |
| MC/11 | Volume 11 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1877-1879 |
| PP/12/16 | Paper, 'An additional contribution to the placentation of the lemurs' by William Turner | 1888 |
| RR/13/40 | Referee's report by William Turner, on a paper 'The menstruation and ovulation of Macacus rhesus' by Walter Heape | 1 August 1896 |
| AP/75/11 | Unpublished paper, 'A comparative study of the grey and white matter of the motor cell groups, and of the spinal accessory nerve, in the spinal cord of the porpoise (Phoccena communis)' by David Hepburn | 1903 |
| PP/13/31/1 | Manuscript, 'The spinal curvature in an Aboriginal Australian' by Daniel John Cunningham | 1889 |
| PP/21/10/1 | Manuscript, 'The electric organ of the skate: Note on an electric centre in the spinal cord' by J [James] Cossar Ewart | 1893 |
| PP/21/10 | Paper, 'The electric organ of the skate: Note on an electric centre in the spinal cord' by J [James] Cossar Ewart | 1893 |
| RR/8/353 | Referee's report by William Turner, on a paper 'On the female organs and placentation of the raccoon (Procyon lotor)' by Morrison Watson | 24 February 1881 |
| AP/73/13 | Unpublished paper, 'The development and morphology of the vascular system in mammals. The posterior end of the aorta and the iliac arteris' by Alfred H Young and Arthur Robinson | 1898 |
| MC/24/192 | Letter from [William] Turner, University of Edinburgh, to [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society] | 15 July 1909 |
| NLB/31/903 | Copy letter from Archibald Geikie, to Sir William Turner, Fellow of the Royal Society | 5 December 1905 |
| MC/19 | Volume 19 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1904 |
| MC/20 | Volume 20 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1905 |