Dawson William Turner
1815–85
Philanthropist and education writer. Son of Dawson Turner; uncle of Joseph Dalton Hooker. Ordained deacon, 1840. Headmaster of the Royal Institution School, Liverpool, 1851–85. Benefactor of London hospitals.
Sources
ODNB s.v. Turner, Dawson
Modern English biography.
Bibliography
Modern English biography: Modern English biography, containing many thousand concise memoirs of persons who have died since the year 1850. By Frederick Boase. 3 vols. and supplement (3 vols.). Truro, Cornwall: the author. 1892–1921.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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