William Turner (botanist)

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William Turner (botanist) was a 16th-century English naturalist, physician, and clergyman often regarded as the "father of English botany" for his pioneering works on British plants.

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instanceOf Reformation theologian
botanist
human
physician
birthYear c. 1508
centuryOfActivity 16th century
countryOfCitizenship Kingdom of England
deathYear 1568
educatedAt Pembroke Hall, Cambridge NERFINISHED
Cambridge University
surface form: University of Cambridge
fieldOfWork botany
medicine
theology
zoology
hasHonorificTitle father of English botany
influenced later English botanists
knownFor being called the father of English botany
early English works on ornithology
pioneering systematic study of British plants
languageOfWorkOrName English
Latin NERFINISHED
movement English Reformation NERFINISHED
notableWork A New Herball NERFINISHED
Avium praecipuarum, quarum apud Plinium et Aristotelem mentio est, brevis et succincta historia NERFINISHED
The Hunting of the Romish Fox NERFINISHED
occupation botanist
clergyman
naturalist
physician
writer
placeOfBirth Morpeth NERFINISHED
Northumberland NERFINISHED
placeOfDeath London, England
surface form: London
positionHeld Dean of Wells NERFINISHED
religion Protestant Christianity
surface form: Protestantism
studied British flora
birds
medicinal plants
wroteIn Latin scientific style
vernacular English

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