William Turner, British ornithologist and botanist (born 1508)

William Turner (naturalist)

English Protestant reformer, physician and natural historian (c. 1509–1568)

William Turner was an English divine and reformer, a physician and a natural historian. He has been called “the father of English botany”. He studied medicine in Italy, and was a friend of the great Swiss naturalist, Conrad Gessner. He was an early herbalist and ornithologist,…