Turner, Dawson, (1775-1858), banker, botanist, art collector and antiquary

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Surname:	Turner
Forenames:	Dawson
Gender:	Male
Date:	1775-1858
Places:	Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
Biography:	ODNB link for Turner, Dawson (1775-1858) Botanist and Antiquary
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/P131683 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P28925 )
Online related resources	Bibliography of British and Irish History link for Dawson Turner

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	papers	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 23013-67, 23106-07, 27967, 28652, 28655-57, 29738, 50484-89
2	annotated copies of publications	British Library, Manuscript Collections		See HMC papers of British scientists 1600-1940, 1982
3	memoranda of botanical corresp (2 vols)	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Library and Archives		See HMC MS papers of British scientists 1600-1940, 1982
4	corresp	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Montagu d 6-10
5	letters (11) to Isaac D'Israeli	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Disraeli	NRA 842 Disraeli
6	corresp with Samuel Woodward	Norwich Castle Museum		See HMC MS papers of British scientists 1600-1940, 1982
7	1549-1834: literary and botanical notes (6 vols)	Virginia Historical Society		NRA 32583 Virginia HS See NUC MS 62-85
8	1709-1852: corresp and papers	Norfolk Record Office	ACC 2012/73	NRA 1194 Palgrave See Annual Return 2012
9	1777-1850: letters (31) of botanists	Natural History Museum Library and Archives	BRN 92859	See Accessions to Repositories 1991
10	1790-1850: corresp (82 vols)	Cambridge University: Trinity College Library	MSS O 13, O 14 1-50
11	1794-1830: letters (96) to James and James de Carle Sowerby	Natural History Museum Library and Archives	L Sowerby Coll A	See Catalogue of MSS...Natural History Museum (1995)
12	1794-1848: collection of booksellers' bills, etc	Saffron Walden Library, Victorian Studies Centre		See ASLIB Directory of Literary and Historical Collections 1993
13	1799, 1814: travel journals	Norwich Castle Museum		See Bridson, Natural history MS resources 1980
14	1800-49: corresp	Edinburgh University Library, Heritage Collections	La II 423 626
15	1800-50: family corresp and papers rel to him collected by ANL Munby	Cambridge University: Trinity College Library	Dawson Turner 2	NRA 39236 Turner See Accessions to Repositories 1990; Sotheby's catalogue 19.7.90, lot 397
16	1801-19: letters to Sir James Smith	Linnean Society of London	Smith papers	NRA 9516
17	1804-51: further corresp, incl letters from John Sell Cotman	Norfolk Record Office	MC 2487	See Annual Return 2005
18	1805-50: corresp with Sir William Hooker	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Library and Archives		See HMC MS papers of British scientists 1600-1940, 1982
19	1807-17: letters to William Borrer	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Library and Archives		NRA 25004 See HMC MS papers of British scientists 1600-1940, 1982
20	1807-20: letters (51) to Ellen Hutchins	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Library and Archives		See Bridson, Natural history MS resources 1980
21	1815-1821: corresp (11 items)	Natural History Museum Library and Archives	L MSS TUR
22	1820-26: letters to T Sharp	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 43645
23	1824-40: letters to TJ Pettigrew	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MS Eng lett d 2
24	1827-34: letters (10)	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 47458
25	1827-48: corresp with Sir Thomas Phillipps	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Phillipps-Robinson	NRA 26260
26	1835-49: letters to William Whewell	Cambridge University: Trinity College Library	WHEWELL	NRA 8804
27	1840-52: letters (22) to TJ Pettigrew	Yale University Libraries: Beinecke Library	Pettigrew Papers	NRA 18661 Osborn coll
28	1841-1842: letters (3) from his daughter, Lady Elizabeth Palgrave	Norfolk Record Office	MC 3088/1-3	See Annual Return 2014
29	1852-55: letters to William Worship, a Yarmouth solicitor	Norfolk Record Office	Y/D 51/1718-1771
30	1815-1816: journal of a three week's tour, with Thomas Phillips Esqr. R.A., from London, through Rouen, Vernon & Mantes, to Paris, in the Autumn of 1815	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 89525	See Annual Return 2022

Related record creators
	Record creator	Description of relationship	Dates	Category of relationship
1	Cotman, John Sell, (1782-1842), Landscape Painter	Dawson Turner was John Sell Cotman's patron from 1811, and Cotman later became drawing master for Turner's family		Associative
2	Palgrave, Lady Elizabeth, (1799-1852), artist	father/daughter		Family