British surgeon and zoologist from Hackney, London who was later elected Secretary of the Zoological Society of London (1831-1836). It is not known if Edward Turner ever created his own herbarium. Material was donated to BM, where his brother Sir John Joseph Bennett (1801-1876) was Keeper, and specimens were also donated to K. Some of the latter British material may have been transferred to BM (c. 1961) under the terms of the Morton Agreement. Not to be confused with Edward Trusted Bennett (1831-1908), a later British collector.