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Dawson Turner was born and spent much of his life at Great Yarmouth in Norfolk. He was admitted as an undergraduate at Pembroke College, Cambridge, in 1793, but returned to Yarmouth before graduating, in order to take his place in the family banking business.

For some years Turner's chief interest was botany, particularly mosses, and he published several works on the subject and corresponded with many of the notable botanists of his day. In later life he concentrated on antiquarian pursuits, amassing a valuable collection of historical documents and autographs, as well as a substantial library which was eventually dispersed in a series of sales. He was a Fellow of various learned bodies, including the Royal Society, the Linnaean Society, and the Society of Antiquaries.

In 1796 Turner married Mary Palgrave, by whom he had eight surviving children. Mary Turner and her daughters were talented amateur artists; they were tutored in drawing by John Sell Cotman and also mastered the arts of etching and lithography. Between them they produced a significant number of sketches and prints, especially portraits and architectural studies, examples of which were often used by their father to embellish his books.

Admitted to Trinity 1/10/1954. BA 1957, MA 1963

Judging from his age at the time of his death, William Tylney Spurdens was born in either 1775 or 1776. He was baptized at Hoxne, on 23 June 1777.

William Tylney Spurdens served at various times as master of North Walsham grammar school; rectory of Brobury, Herefordshire; chaplain to the Earl of Stradbrooke; and curate of Dilham with Honing, in Norfolk (various newspapers, via British Newspaper Archive).

Spurdens died at the Oaks, North Walsham, on 19 December 1852 and was buried in the parish church on the 24th (Norfolk News, 25 Dec. 1852; burial register and memorial inscription). He was 76 years of age at the time of his death.

Admitted to Trinity 1/10/1958. BA 1961, MA 1965