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| − | Born in [[place of Birth::Middlesex]], son of [[family::Peter Turner]], [[occupation::physician]]. BA [[education::Christ Church, Oxford]] 1605, [[occupation::fellow]] of [[education::Merton College Oxford|Merton]] 1607, MA 1612, MD 1636. [[occupation::Professor]] of geometry at [[education::Gresham College, London]] 1620-31, when he became [[occupation::professor]] of geometry at [[education::the University of Oxford|Oxford]]. During the 1630s he was closely involved in the revision of the University statutes. He [[occupation::military|enlisted]] for the | + | Born in [[place of Birth::Middlesex]], son of [[family::Peter Turner]], [[occupation::physician]]. BA [[education::Christ Church, Oxford]] 1605, [[occupation::fellow]] of [[education::Merton College Oxford|Merton]] 1607, MA 1612, MD 1636. [[occupation::Professor]] of geometry at [[education::Gresham College, London]] 1620-31, when he became [[occupation::professor]] of geometry at [[education::the University of Oxford|Oxford]]. During the 1630s he was closely involved in the revision of the University statutes. He [[occupation::military|enlisted]] for the royalist army in 1641, was captured and imprisoned in [[location::Southwark]], and returned to [[location::Oxford]] in 1643. In 1648 he was ejected from his [[education::the University of Oxford|Oxford]] preferments and spent the last few years of his life living in much reduced circumstances with his widowed [[family::sister]] in [[location::Southwark]]. |
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Peter TURNER 1586-1652
Biographical Note
Born in Middlesex, son of Peter Turner, physician. BA Christ Church, Oxford 1605, fellow of Merton 1607, MA 1612, MD 1636. Professor of geometry at Gresham College, London 1620-31, when he became professor of geometry at Oxford. During the 1630s he was closely involved in the revision of the University statutes. He enlisted for the royalist army in 1641, was captured and imprisoned in Southwark, and returned to Oxford in 1643. In 1648 he was ejected from his Oxford preferments and spent the last few years of his life living in much reduced circumstances with his widowed sister in Southwark.
Books
Turner was a Greek scholar as well as a mathematician and compiled a catalogue of the Barocci manuscripts shortly after their accession by the Bodleian Library in 1629 (MS Barocci 243). His brief will has no mention of books but bequeathed the residue of his estate to Elizabeth Walter, widow, of Southwark. Greek manuscripts of his were given to the Bodleian Library at this time, presumably in the aftermath of his death, though not as a direct bequest as stated by Macray. The fate of any other books he owned is not known.
Characteristic markings
Sources
- Carlyle, E. I., and H. K. Higton. [https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/27857 "Turner, Peter (1586–1652), mathematician." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
- Macray, Annals of the Bodleian p. 108.
- Philip, I. The Bodleian Library in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, p.121.