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TURNER, WILLIAM (d. 1568)

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 480 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TURNER, See also:WILLIAM (d. 1568) , See also:English divine, botanist and physician, was See also:born at See also:Morpeth in See also:Northumberland, and was educated at See also:Pembroke See also:Hall, See also:Cambridge, where he was elected junior See also:fellow in 1530. He learnt See also:Greek from See also:Nicholas See also:Ridley, and, See also:hearing See also:Hugh See also:Latimer preach, threw in his See also:lot with the new faith. In 1538 he published his Libellus de re herbaria, and in 1J40 set out to preach in different places. For doing this without a See also:licence he suffered imprisonment, and on his See also:release travelled in See also:Holland, See also:Germany, See also:Italy and See also:Switzerland, always increasing his knowledge of See also:botany and See also:medicine, See also:collecting See also:plants, and See also:writing books on See also:religion which were so popular in See also:England that they were forbidden by See also:proclamation in See also:July 1546. On the See also:accession of See also:Edward VI. he became See also:chaplain and physician to the See also:duke of See also:Somerset and in 1550 See also:prebendary of See also:York. In See also:November 1550 he was made See also:dean of See also:Wells, but in 1553 was deprived, and during See also:Queen See also:Mary's reign lived at various places in Germany, mostly along the See also:Rhine. Returning to England in 1558 he regained his deanery, and did all he could to disparage See also:episcopacy and ceremonial, and to bring the See also:Anglican See also:Church into conformity with the Reformed Churches of Germany and Switzerland. On the complaint of his See also:bishop, See also:Gilbert See also:Berkeley, he was suspended for See also:Nonconformity in 1564. He passed his last days in Crutched Friars, See also:London, and died on the 7th of July 1568. Turner was a See also:sound and keen botanist, and introduced See also:lucerne into England. He was a racy writer, a See also:man of undoubted learning, and a vigorous controversialist.

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