William Turner
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AI Council 1891 Member
AI Council 1892 Member
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Professor of Anatomy in the University of Edinburgh
proposed 29 October 1889
death noted in the report of the council for 1916. Obituary notice in Man 1916, 42 by A. Keith includes portrait
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Sir William Turner (7 January 1832 in Lancaster – 15 February 1916 in Edinburgh) was a British anatomist and was the Principal of the University of Edinburgh from 1903 to 1916.
Born Lancaster; died Edinburgh. Virtually whole career from 1854 at Edinburgh University; Professor of Anatomy from 1867-1903, Principal from 1903-16 Knighted 1886; KCB 1901. Honorary degrees from Glasgow, St Andrews, Aberdeen, Montreal, Western University, Pennsylvania, Oxford, Durham, Toronto, Dublin and Cambridge Interested in classification & evolutionary genealogy of human races.