Sir William Turner. 



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In 1903 he was elected Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University in 

 which he had worked so faithfully and well for nearly half a century, and in 

 his new position he continued to promote, not only the success of the 

 Medical School, but also the wider interests of the University. The 

 Anatomical Museum and the practical classes in Anatomy and Physiology 

 had greatly outgrown the buildings in the Old University, and it is to hi? 

 exertions and influence that the University owes the large new buildings 

 which they now occupy, as well as the spacious "McEwan Hall." These 

 buildings cost £228,000. Turner also took an active part in framing the 

 regulations under which Mr. Carnegie's generous gift to the Scottish 

 Universities is at present administered. 



In his earlier years he was an enthusiastic Volunteer and retired from the 

 service in 1890 with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel and the V.D. On the 

 outbreak of the present war he gave all the aid in his power to the promotion 

 of recruiting among the University men in Edinburgh. 



He was recipient of many honours. Knighted in 1886 and created K.C.B. 

 in 1901, he lalso received the Prussian Order Pour le Merite. Elected 

 Fellow of the Eoyal Society in 1877, he served on the Council in 1890-1, was 

 President of the Eoyal Society of Edinburgh, and of the British Association 

 (at the Bradford Meeting, 1900); Honorary Member of the Eoyal Irish 

 Academy and of the Anthropological Societies in Paris, Petrograd, Eome, and 

 Berlin. He took much interest in the founding of the Anatomical Society 

 in 1887, and was its President in 1891-2. He had also received a large 

 number of Honorary degrees, LL.D. of Aberdeen, St. Andrews, Glasgow, 

 Montreal, and Pennsylvania ; D.C.L. of Oxford, Durham, and Toronto ; and 

 D.Sc. of Dublin and Cambridge. 



In 1863 he married Agnes, eldest daughter of Abraham Logan, of 

 Burnhouse, Berwickshire, who pre-deceased him, and he leaves three sons and 

 two daughters. His eldest son is Dr. William Aldren Turner, Physician and 

 Lecturer on Neurology at King's College Hospital ; his second son is 

 Dr. Arthur Logan Turner, Consulting Surgeon and Lecturer ou Diseases of 

 the Ear and Throat at the Eoyal Infirmary of Edinburgh and in the 

 L T niversity. 



He had enjoyed good health throughout his long life, and in spite of his 

 venerable appearance, he was active and able to attend to his duties almost 

 to the last. For some years he found it advisable to winter abroad, but since 

 the outbreak of the war this was impossible. On February 3 he attended a 

 meeting of the Senatus, but feeling unwell he had to leave before the meeting 

 was concluded. The weakness gradually increased and he died quietly in his 

 sleep on February 15. 



He has left behind him a threefold record of success : as a teacher, as an 

 investigator, and as an organiser and man of affairs. As a teacher he held 

 a unique record as an educator of anatomical teachers. Nineteen of his 

 students became teachers of anatomy or of kindred subjects in different 

 parts of the Empire. Their great success was due to the encouragement 



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