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Darwin Correspondence Project

Mary Turner

1774–1850

Second daughter of William Palgrave and Elizabeth Thirkettle, of Coltishall, Norfolk; married Dawson Turner in 1796. Joseph Dalton Hooker’s maternal grandmother.

Sources

DNB s.v. Turner, Dawson

L. Huxley ed. 1918, 1: 18.

Bibliography

DNB: Dictionary of national biography. Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee. 63 vols. and 2 supplements (6 vols.). London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1912. Dictionary of national biography 1912–90. Edited by H. W. C. Davis et al. 9 vols. London: Oxford University Press. 1927–96.

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