English: Alfred Jefferis Turner (1861-1947), paediatrician and entomologist, was born on 3 October 1861 in Canton, China, eldest of six children of Frederick Storrs Turner, missionary, and his wife Sophia Mary. Educated in England at Amersham Hall and the City of London School, in 1878 he began medical studies at University College, London, graduating with first-class honours (M.B., M.R.C.S., 1884; M.D., 1886).

He arrived in Australia in 1888 and became first resident surgeon at the Hospital for Sick Children, Brisbane, before entering private practice in 1893. He qualified for the Cambridge Diploma in Public Health in 1901 and from 1904 was visiting medical officer to the Diamantina Hospital for Chronic Diseases.

In his spare time, Turner was a keen amateur entomologist who specialized in Lepidoptera and named 450 new genera and four new families. Because of his mild manner and love of children, Turner acquired the sobriquet 'Gentle Annie'. Turner died in Brisbane without issue on 29 December 1947 and was cremated. He was survived by his wife, Hilda Constance.

Description source: Australian Dictionary of Biography

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