Turner, Sam

Letter to a Mr Wallace, approving a hospital moving premises. Permission for the move was granted by His Majesty (Charles I), thus Turner was a Royalist during the English Civil War

25 May 1644

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Transferred from Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, c.1939

Education 1601-2 B.A. from St. Mary Hall, Oxford, 1604 licensed M.A. from St. Alban Hall 1611 graduated M.D. at the university of Padua in Career 1625-6 returned to parliament for the borough of Shaftesbury in Dorset Resumed his seat in the Long parliament 1641 included among the fifty-nine members whose names were posted up by the mob as 'Straffordians, betrayers of their country,' because they had voted against Strafford's attainder 1642 Outbreak of the civil war took up arms for the king, and obtained a captain's commission C.1643 defeated the parliamentarians in a skirmish at Henley 1643-4 disabled from sitting in the Long parliament for 'being in the king's quarters and adhering to that party' C.1647 died leaving a son, Samuel Turner