William Bertram Turrill

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William Bertram Turrill BSc, DSc, FRS, FLS (1890-1961)

Biography

Born 14 June 1890, Woodstock, Oxfordshire.
1906-1908 junior assistant at Fielding Herbarium, University of Oxford.
1909 Temporary assistant in the Herbarium, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
1914 permanent assistant.
1916-1918 Served in the Royal Army Medical Corps on the Thessaloniki Front (where he acquired his interest in Balkan flora), afterwards returned to Kew.
1918-1939 taught evening classes at Chelsea Polytechnic.
1936 Founded, with John Scott Gilmour and Hampton Wildman Parker, the Association for the Study of Systematics.
Keeper of the Kew Herbarium and Library 1946-1957.
1948-1961 Editor of Botanical Magazine.
1950-1951 president of British Ecological Society.
1953 received Veitch memorial gold medal of Royal Horticultural Society.
1955 OBE.
1958 Linnean Society Gold Medal.
1958 vice-president of Linnean Society.
1958 fellow of the Royal Society.
Died 15 December 1961, Richmond, Surrey.

1929 Published "The Plant-life of the Balkan Peninsula".
1948 Published "British Plant Life" (New Naturalist series).
1959 Published "The Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Past and Present".

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