Spouse Florence Homan | Name William Turrill | |
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Born 14 June 1890
Woodstock, Oxfordshire ( 1890-06-14 ) Institutions Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Notable awards Linnean Medal (1958)
Fellow of the Royal Society
Order of the British Empire Author abbrev. (botany) Died December 15, 1961, Surrey, United Kingdom Alma mater Chelsea College of Science and Technology Institution Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Books Flora of the Upper Gangetic, British Plant Life: With 53 C, Pioneer plant geography, Flora of Tropical East Afric, Volume in Honour Bicenten | ||
William Bertram Turrill FRS OBE (14 June 1890 - 15 December 1961) was an English botanist.
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Education
He was born in Woodstock, Oxfordshire to William Banbury and Thirza Mary (née Homan) Turrill and educated at the Woodstock National School.
Career
Turrill worked in the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew and was responsible for many innovations including a mathematical classification of leaf shapes.
Awards and honours
Turrill received the Order of the British Empire in 1955 and the gold medal of the Linnean Society in 1958. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in March 1958 as someone:
This botanist is denoted by the author abbreviation Turrill when citing a botanical name.
Personal life
He married Florence Homan in 1918.
Eponymy
The plant species Veronica turrilliana, Symplocos turrilliana, Cryptocarya turrilliana, Astragalus turrillii and Cyperus turrillii are named after him.