William Bertram Turrill
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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.
He served with the Royal Army Medical Corps of the British Army during the First World War, mainly on the Macedonian front.[1]
Career
Turrill worked in the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew and was responsible for many innovations including a mathematical classification of leaf shapes.[2]
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[2] as someone: Template:Centered pull quote
This botanist is denoted by the author abbreviation Turrill when citing a botanical name.[3]
Personal life
He married Florence Homan in 1918.
He spent his Childhood, searching the woods, fields, broad green lanes, ponds and watercourses.
The plant species Veronica turrilliana, Symplocos turrilliana, Cryptocarya turrilliana, Astragalus turrillii and Cyperus turrillii are named after him.
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- 1890 births
- 1961 deaths
- People from Woodstock, Oxfordshire
- English botanists
- Veitch Memorial Medal recipients
- Victoria Medal of Honour recipients
- Fellows of the Royal Society
- Fellows of the Linnean Society of London
- New Naturalist writers
- Officers of the Order of the British Empire
- Military personnel from Oxfordshire
- British Army personnel of World War I
- Royal Army Medical Corps soldiers