Dawson Turner FRS FSA (18 October 1775 – 21 June 1858)[1] 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 and of the historian Francis Palgrave.
He was educated at North Walsham Grammar School (now Paston College), Norfolk and at Barton Bendish as a pupil of the botanist Robert Forby.
[3] Through his first wife Mary, he met Captain George Manby, amateur artist, inventor and barrack-master of Yarmouth.
He and his children were taught drawing by renowned Norfolk artist John Sell Cotman who became a good friend.