William Bertram Turrill

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| birth_place = Woodstock, Oxfordshire

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| workplaces = Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

| alma_mater = Chelsea Polytechnic

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| awards = Linnean Medal {{small|(1958)}}
Fellow of the Royal Society{{Cite journal | last1 = Hubbard | first1 = C. E. | doi = 10.1098/rsbm.1971.0028 | title = William Bertram Turrill 1890-1961 | journal = Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society | volume = 17 | pages = 688–712| year = 1971 | doi-access = free }}
Order of the British Empire

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William Bertram Turrill FRS OBE FLS (14 June 1890 – 15 December 1961) was an English botanist.{{Cite web |title=Chrono-Biographical Sketch: William Bertram Turrill |url=http://www.wku.edu/~smithch/chronob/TURR1890.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181020215322/http://people.wku.edu/charles.smith/chronob/TURR1890.htm |archive-date=20 October 2018 |access-date=26 October 2024}}

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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.

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: {{centered pull quote|Distinguished for his work on plant taxonomy, particularly for his experimental and genetical approach to problems among British plant species and for his exceptional knowledge of the floras of the Near East.{{cite web | url= http://www2.royalsociety.org/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Persons&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=%28Surname%3D%27turrill%27%29 | title= Library and Archive Catalogue | publisher= Royal Society | access-date= 29 October 2010 | archive-date= 26 October 2022 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20221026022155/http://www2.royalsociety.org/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Persons&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=%28Surname%3D%27turrill%27%29 | url-status= dead }}}}

This botanist is denoted by the author abbreviation Turrill when citing a botanical name.{{cite book|last = Brummitt|first = R. K.|author2=C. E. Powell |title = Authors of Plant Names |publisher = Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |year = 1992 |isbn = 1-84246-085-4}}