Bishop William Turnbull A Worthy Forbear
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- Written by Father William David Turnbull
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A life of the great bishop and statesman who founded Glasgow University has never been written. This was probably less a lack of piety on the part of our ancestors than an awareness that even when the scattered facts about Bishop Turnbull were brought together much still remained uncertain and obscure. Death came very quickly to him after he had completed his crowning work, and in the disturbed Scotland of his day his memory rapidly faded . . . We have no portrait of him . . . Perhaps, however, by setting him quite deliberately against the background of his times we may begin to glimpse something of the vision that animated this great teacher, patriot, administrator and churchman . . . in him too we can see, in the very decline of the Middle Ages, something of the pattern of medieval man, a perfect blend of the sacred and secular virtues, equally at home in Church and State.*
Turnbull, Andrew Dr.
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Andrew Turnbull (1718–1792) was a British Consul at Smyrna. He organized the largest attempt at British colonization in the New World by founding New Smyrna, Florida, named in honor of his wife's birthplace. New Smyrna, Florida Colony, founded in 1768, encompassed some 101,400 acres (410 km²) and was nearly three times the size of the colony at Jamestown.
Bishop William Turnbull
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Copy of Address Given by Sir William Fraser, Principal University of Glasgow at Evening Service
At Bedrule around 1400 William Turnbull was born, and shortly thereafter baptised, in its medieval kirk. His kinsmen of Bedrule and Minto were often notorious for breaching the peace, though some were notable churchmen, abbots of nearby Jedburgh and Melrose. William would later describe himself as ‘of noble race by both parents’ and King James II would refer to their blood-relationship, that is through his mother, seemingly a Stewart of Minto. As a boy, William would hear of the disastrous fire that swept away much of Glasgow cathedral from the central tower eastwards to the upper chapterhouse, inflicting damage it took half a century to repair. William's father received the fortified house at Bedrule as a thank-offering from the Douglases for help afforded against England in the Border Wars. Other warlike Turnbulls died on French battlefields in the 100 Years' War. In a lawless countryside William grew up a devotee of law.
William Roule the First Turnbull
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The following is information about William Roule, who was the first Turnbull. The information was collected from the "I saved The King" by R. E. Scott and "RuleWater and It's People" by George Tancred.
William Roule, a man of the Roule River, was well known for his strength and abilities in many activities.The man lived by the River Roule and appears on several records throughout the 13th century. In 1300, his name appears upon a record as a witness for a grant of land to the Monks of Kelso from the Throne of England Edward the First.
