THE TURNER FAMILY 17 



Gurney & Co. when they opened a branch of their Norwich' 

 bank at Great Yarmouth. 



This James Turner married, as has been mentioned, Eliza- 

 beth Cotman, and gave his mother's family name to his son 

 Dawson (6. 1775). 



Dawson Turner, as might be expected, went to Pembroke 

 College, where his uncle was Master ; but in his second year his 

 father died, and he had to leave the University and take his 

 place at the bank. But business did not exclude letters. As 

 banker and author he was a forerunner of Grote and Bagehot 

 and Lubbock. His library, his collection of autographs, his 

 small but choice gallery of pictures, were all notable. 



As early as 1797 he became a Fellow of the Linnean 

 Society, and later, of the Society of Antiquaries and the Royal 

 Society. 1 



* Through the Turner connexion the Hookers gained several 

 interesting cousinships notably with the Palgrave family. 

 Dawson Turner married Mary Palgrave (1774-1850), second 

 daughter of William Palgrave, of Coltishall, and Elizabeth 

 Thirkettle. Her younger sister, Anne Palgrave (1777-1872), 

 married Edward Rigby, M.D., of Coltishall. Three of the 

 Rigby daughters were married in Esthonia : Anne (1804-69) 

 to George de Wahl, Maria Justina (1808-89) to Baron Robert 

 de Rosen, Gertrude (1813-59) to Theophile de Rosen ; 

 Gertrude's daughter, again, in 1860 married General Mander- 

 stjerna, and the rest of her children married and remained in 

 Russia. These second cousins of his welcomed Joseph Hooker 

 on his visit to St. Petersburg in 1869. 



Another Rigby daughter, Elizabeth (1809-93), married 

 Sir Charles Eastlake, P.R.A. She was a close and life- 

 long friend of her cousin Joseph. Matilda, the eighth child 

 and youngest of the Rigbys, married James Smith. Their 



1 Dawson Turner publishe.d important illustrated works on the British 

 Fuci, the Mosses of Ireland, and especially the Natural History of Fuci, 

 1808-19, and, with L. W. Dillwyn, The Botanist's Guide through England and 

 Wales, 1805. Later he devoted himself especially to art and antiquities. 

 He wrote largely on the archaeology of Norfolk and Suffolk, inter alia ' Granger- 

 ising ' Blomefield's History of Norfolk with 2000 drawings. His chief archseo- 

 logical work was his Account of a Tour in Normandy, with fifty etchings by his 

 wife and daughters and John Cotman, 



