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3n flDemoriam. 



W. BARWELL TURNER. 



The decease of William Barwell Turner removes one who, 

 in his time, played no mean part in the development and ad- 

 vancement of science in Leeds. A native of Warwickshire,* 

 he came to Leeds in 1877, soon gravitated to the Naturalists' 

 Club, and became one of those who made the Society one of 

 the most successful of its kind. It was in the days when as 

 yet there was no University, not even the Yorkshire College of 



Science which was its precursor, and at that time the Natura- 

 lists' Club was one of the principal centres of intellectual 

 progress in the city, as the subsequent careers of many of 

 its then members demonstrated. 



Our subject was the son of Thomas Turner, and of his wife 

 Sarah, the daughter of William Barwell, of an old Birmingham 

 family. He was educated at a famous institution, King 

 Edward's Grammar School, at Birmingham. On leaving, he 

 entered the service of Samuel Allsopp and Sons, the famous 

 brewers of Burton-on-Trent, where he learned the business 

 thoroughly, especially on its scientific or chemical side. This 



* Born at Birmingham 9th June, 1845 ; Died at Leeds nth May, 1917. 



Naturalist, 



