?1506-34 A domestic servant in Kent she made prophetic utterances denouncing Henry V's divorce and marriage. She was hanged at Tyburn for treason.

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Source(s):

Syon House - A seat of the Duke of Northumberland

Chambers Biographical Dictionary

Possibly the son of a tanner, William obtained patronage and became a fellow of Pembroke Hall in Cambridge where he specialised in medecine and botany. He was a committed follower of the reformed religion which may have accounted for his being employed, as the doctor of the Duke of Somerset at Syon, because the Duke also had that commitment. He has been titled the Father of English Botany and first published a herbal in 1551. That includes a description of the chick pea with the comment 'I have it in my garden at Kew'. Also there are records from 1549 associated with the fall of the Duke of Somerset of the 'embezzling of goods of the late Lord Protector by his servants' and that 'Certain stuff was conveyed by boats by night to Kew... The Duke had three servants living in the town, Sir Myles Partridge, Turner his physician, and Gely gentleman usher.' Turner had to leave England duting Mary's reign but returned to be Dean of Wells and to publish further editions of his herbal..

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Source(s):

Kew Past