His many high profile positions have included: Vice Chairman of the Royal Bank of Scotland; Chairman of the Board of Trustees, National Galleries of Scotland, 1988–97; Chairman of the Fine Art Society; and Chairman of Lyon & Turnbull, auctioneers.
Lyon | William Lyon Mackenzie King | Nathaniel Lyon | University of Lyon | Chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée | Sandy Turnbull | Garry Lyon | Jean Moulin University Lyon 3 | Opéra National de Lyon | Claude Bowes-Lyon, 13th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne | Second Council of Lyon | Malcolm Turnbull | Eucherius of Lyon | Council of Lyon | The Lyon's Den | Lord Lyon King of Arms | Urban Community of Lyon | Fort Lyon | First Council of Lyon | Edward Lyon Berthon | Dar Lyon | Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Lyon | Colin Turnbull | Caleb Lyon | Bill Turnbull | Annabel Lyon | 1st arrondissement of Lyon | William Turnbull | William P. Lyon | William Lyon Phelps |
Additionally, Alexandria-based IP boutique Burns, Doane, Swecker & Mathis merged with Pittsburgh-based Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney in 2005, Cushman, Darby & Cushman was absorbed by national firm Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman (then Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro), Houston-based Arnold, White & Durkee merged with Howrey (then Howrey & Simon), and Los Angeles-based Lyon & Lyon dissolved in 2002.
John E. Turnbull, Canadian inventor of the first rolling wringer clothes washer, 1843
The Supreme Court project was the most comprehensive Turnbull was responsible for, working closely with Justices Sandra Day O'Connor, Anthony Kennedy, and David Souter, as well as Sally Rider who served as Administrative Assistant to the Chief Justice under Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist.
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His father, Gordon McKinnon Turnbull, was a soldier and World War II veteran of The Royal Canadian Regiment, frequently stationed in Great Britain as part of Canada's contribution to the Imperial Forces of the British Empire defending the political and cultural center of the Empire, the United Kingdom, during the Battle of Britain.
In the Arms of Africa: The Life of Colin M. Turnbull (ISBN 0226309045, University of Chicago Press, 2000)