Account of a Tour in Normandy - Volume I (Esprios Classics)

Dawson Turner FRS (1775 - 1858) was an English banker botanist and antiquary. He specialized in the botany of cryptogams and was the father-in-law of the botanist William Jackson Hooker. In 1796 Turner joined his father's bank. After becoming a banker he took a more intensive interest in botany in leisure time collecting specimens in the field. In December 1802 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. In 1816 he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. By 1820 his interest in botany had been replaced by an interest in antiquities. He and his children were taught drawing by renowned Norfolk artist John Sell Cotman who became a good friend. They travelled to Normandy together and collaborated on a book Architectural Antiquities of Normandy published in 1822.