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William Turner (1509/10 – 13 July 1568) [1] was an English divine and reformer, a physician and a natural historian. He has been called “the father of English botany ”. [ 2 ] He studied medicine in Italy, and was a friend of the great Swiss naturalist, Conrad Gessner .
The Frontier Thesis, also known as Turner's Thesis or American frontierism, is the argument by historian Frederick Jackson Turner in 1893 that the settlement and colonization of the rugged American frontier was decisive in forming the culture of American democracy and distinguishing it from European nations.
The Prince of Orange, William III, Embarked from Holland, and Landed at Torbay, November 4th, 1688, after a Stormy Passage is an 1832 marine history painting by the English artist Joseph Mallord William Turner. [1] [2] It depicts an event from the Glorious Revolution of 1688 when William III had landed at Brixham.
Dorothy Kinsley Turner (later Main) was the mother of the historian Jackson Turner Main (1917–2003), a scholar of Revolutionary America who married a fellow scholar. Frederick Jackson Turner died in 1932 in Pasadena, California , [ 1 ] where he had been a research associate at the Huntington Library .
Turner's father William Turner (1745–1829) moved to London around 1770 from South Molton, Devon. [5] Joseph Mallord William Turner was born on 23 April 1775 and baptised on 14 May. [b] He was born in Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, in London. [6] His father was a barber and wig maker. [8] His mother, Mary Marshall, came from a family of butchers. [9]
Higher Mill was built in 1796 for William Turner, and Whitaker's Mill was built in the 1820s by the Turner family. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In their early life they alternated between working wool and cotton . By 1920 they were working shoddy as condensor mule mills ; and equipment has been preserved and is still used.
"The Significance of the Frontier in American History" is a seminal essay by the American historian Frederick Jackson Turner which advanced the Frontier thesis of American history. Turner's thesis had a significant impact on how people in the late 19th and early 20th centuries understood American identity, character, and national growth.
William Turner (biographer) (1788–1853), son of the English Unitarian minister of the same name; William Turner (composer) (1651–1740), baroque English composer; William Turner (envoy) (1792–1867), British diplomat and author; William B. Turner (1892–1918), U.S. Army officer and Medal of Honor recipient