John Turnbull of Abbey St Bathans information

John Turnbull of Abbey St Bathans WS FRSE (1820–1891) was a 19th-century Scottish lawyer, landowner, archaeologist and naturalist. John was born on 3...

agricultural improver. Turnbull was born in 1793 at Abbey St Bathans in the Scottish Borders. His father, originally referred to as John Turnbull of Duns, had purchased...

accident in 1830, the young Thomson and his mother went to live in Abbey St. Bathans, Berwickshire. He was educated at Wooler and Duns Academy, later spending...

Scottish Borders village of Abbey St Bathans by early surveyor John Turnbull Thomson; the Scottish village was the birthplace of Thomson's maternal grandfather...