Papers of Peter Stephenson Turnbull, 1836-1921, Surgeon Major-General, Glasgow, Scotland and Bombay, India

• University papers, 1855-1860;
• Professional papers, 1860-1893;
• Photographs and drawings, 1890-1999;
• Ephemera, 1994.

Peter Stephenson Turnbull was born on 02 March 1836  , at Deneburn, Denholm, the fourteenth child of Thomas Turnbull (1784-1867), tenant of East Middle by his second wife, Mary Beattie (1801-1880). He studied at the University of Glasgow between the years 1855-1859  , taking classes in Practical Anatomy, Physiology, Chemistry, Botany, Surgery, Materi Medica Pharmacy and Dietetics, Dispensary, Medical Jurisprudence, Pathology, Natural History and Midwifery. He graduated MD in 1859  . He studied at Edinburgh Medical School at sometime in 1859 and 1860 before gaining registration of his Medical qualifications in 1860  . He served with the Army in Abyssinia between 1867 and 1868 and assisted in the action of Arogee and assault and capture of Magdala for which he gained a medal. In 1893  Peter Turnbull became Surgeon Major General of the Indian Medical Service in Bombay, a fellow of the University of Bombay and Surgeon General with the Government of Bombay. He died on 7th October 1921  in Edinburgh and is buried there in Grange Cemetery.

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Deposit : Michael Turnbull, Longniddry, East Lothian, Scotland : 1996. ACCNs 1815, 1820 & 1885.

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