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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]
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 .
William Turner (naturalist) (c. 1508–1568), English ornithologist and botanist; dean of Wells Cathedral; William Turner Thiselton-Dyer (1843–1928), British botanist; W. E. S. Turner (William Ernest Stephen Turner, 1881–1963), English chemist and glass technologist; William Wadden Turner (1810–1859), British-born American linguist and ...
Captain William Thomas Turner OBE RNR (23 October 1856 – 23 June 1933) was a British merchant captain. He is best known as the captain of RMS Lusitania when she was sunk by a German torpedo in May 1915 .
The Slave Ship, originally titled Slavers Throwing overboard the Dead and Dying—Typhon coming on, [1] is a painting by the British artist J. M. W. Turner, first exhibited at The Royal Academy of Arts in 1840.
William Turner RWS (29 November 1789 – 7 August 1862) was a British painter who specialised in watercolour landscapes. He is often known as William Turner of Oxford or just Turner of Oxford to distinguish him from his contemporary, J. M. W. Turner (known as William). Many of Turner's paintings depicted the countryside around Oxford. [1]
William Turner is a blacksmith's apprentice working in Port Royal, Jamaica. He secretly loves the governor's daughter, Elizabeth Swann (played by Keira Knightley and Lucinda Dryzek), although he occupies a lower social class than she does. Will is the son of Bootstrap Bill Turner, and he works to free his father from service to Davy Jones.
William H. Turner (August 1, 1931 – November 1, 2002) was an African-American school board member and state senator from Miami, Florida. He was a pioneer of racial integration, serving as the first black school board member in Dade County, and a supporter of education in the Florida legislature.