| 词条 | Hector Turnbull (businessman) |
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Hector Turnbull (1733 – 1788) was a leading Perthshire linen bleachfield developer and operator. Hector was born in 1733 on his father William Turnbull's farm Blackadder Mains near the Blackadder Water river in southern Berwickshire, Scotland. He worked at the British Linen Company's bleachfield in Saltoun,[1] East Lothian before moving in 1753 to Luncarty[1] near Perth to be the business partner of William Sandeman who was leveling {{convert|12|acre|m2}} there to be bleachfields. By 1790, the Luncarty bleachfields covered {{convert|80|acre|m2}} and processed 500,000 square yards of cloth annually.[2][3] On 7 December 1756 he married Agnes Glas, the daughter of John Glas, the founder of the Glasites: they had four children before she died. He married Mary Walker on 28 October 1761: they had more 16 children. Five of the children married five of the 16 children of his bleachfields partner William Sandeman.[4] One son William Turnbull established the bleachfield at Huntingtower.[5] One grandchild was George Turnbull, the Chief Engineer building in the 1850s the first railway in eastern India. Hector died in 1788.[6][7] Hector had a brother Lt Colonel George Turnbull who fought in America. References1. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://www.dundee.ac.uk/archives/ms010.htm |title=Boase & Co Ltd, Claverhouse Bleachfield, Dundee |first=Michael |last=Bolik |date=16 August 2005 |work=University of Dundee |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101230033540/http://www.dundee.ac.uk/archives/ms010.htm |archivedate=30 December 2010 |df= }} {{DEFAULTSORT:Turnbull, Hector}}2. ^A J Cooke A History of Redgorton Parish 1984, University of Dundee, pages 2-3 3. ^Perth Entrepreneurs: the Sandemans of Springfield by Charles D Waterston, 2008, page 29 {{ISBN|978-0-905452-52-4}} 4. ^Perth Entrepreneurs: the Sandemans of Springfield by Charles D Waterston, 2008, page 30 {{ISBN|978-0-905452-52-4}} 5. ^Page 6 of Diaries of George Turnbull (Chief Engineer, East Indian Railway Company) held at the Centre of South Asian Studies at Cambridge University, England 6. ^Diaries of George Turnbull (Chief Engineer, East Indian Railway Company) held at the Centre of South Asian Studies at Cambridge University, England 7. ^George Turnbull, C.E. 437-page memoirs published privately 1893, scanned copy held in the British Library, London on compact disk since 2007 7 : People from Berwickshire|Textile workers|People associated with Perth and Kinross|Scottish businesspeople|1733 births|1788 deaths|18th-century Scottish people |
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