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3 unusual facts about Andrew Turnbull


Andrew Turnbull

Drew Turnbull (1930–2012), Scottish rugby league footballer of the 1950s for Great Britain and Leeds

Andrew Turnbull, Baron Turnbull (born 1945), head of the British Civil Service and Cabinet Secretary 2002–2005

Andrew Turnbull, Baron Turnbull

Turnbull became involved in controversy when on 28 February 2004 he wrote a formal letter admonishing ex-minister Clare Short for making media statements alleging that British intelligence had intercepted communications from (amongst others) Secretary General of the United Nations Kofi Annan.


Saint Augustine Blues

Many of the members of the Saint Augustine Blues were descendants of settlers from Minorca and a smaller group of Italians and Greeks from Italy and Greece collectively referred to in this instance as the Minorcans, that fled Andrew Turnbull's failed colony at New Smyrna and were granted sanctuary in St. Augustine by the governor of then British East Florida Patrick Tonyn.


see also

Robert James Turnbull

Turnbull's father was Andrew Turnbull, a British physician married to a Greek wife (a native of Smyrna, where he had worked for British interests).