Turnbull, John ♂

Education

M.A. and M.D. 22.2.1796 on testimonials signed by Robert Innes M.D., physician at Giffordvale and William Dunbar of Hounwood, M.D.

Birth/childhood

Born before 1770.

Career

Served as an officer in Stuart’s Regiment of the Scots Brigade in Holland before turning to medicine. [Soldier]

Apprenticed to Benjamin Bell, Edinburgh.

Studied Edinburgh University.

Dip. R.C.S.E. 6.5.1793.

Practised Belford, Northumberland then Hawick. [Doctor]

Death

Died after 1796.

Sources

• P.J. Wallis and R.V. Wallis, Eighteenth Century Medics (Newcastle, 1988)
• Great grandfather of Major General David Turnbull Richardson who died in 1957.