Author: Michael T.R.B. Turnbull
Fuller name: Michael Thomas Rio Branco TURNBULL
Title: Dr
Born: 1941
Bio: Michael T.R.B. Turnbull was born in Istanbul in 1941, the son of a Scottish father and a Brazilian mother. He was educated at the Abbey School, Fort Augustus on Loch Ness, the Universities of Cambridge and London, before studying Drawing and Painting at the Edinburgh College of Art. For most of his life he has been a teacher and further education lecturer in Communication and in Tourism. Recently he graduated PhD in Ecclesiastical History from the University of Edinburgh. He has twice been awarded a Scottish Arts Council Writers bursary (1993, 1997) and a Glenfiddich Living Scotland Award (1986, 1991), as well as a Sir Winston Churchill Memorial Fellowship (1993). In 2008-2009 he held a Visiting Fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at Edinburgh University.

His publications include:    Edinburgh Portraits (John Donald 1987)
Buildings and Landmarks of Edinburgh ( W & R Chambers 1989)
Monuments and Statues of Edinburgh (W & R Chambers 1989)
The Edinburgh Book of Quotations (B & W Publishing 1991)
The Edinburgh Graveyard Guide (Saint Andrew Press 1991)
Edinburgh Characters (Saint Andrew Press 1992)
Joseph Hislop: gran tenore (Scolar Press 1992)
Scotland: The Facts (W & R Chambers 1993)
Cardinal Gordon Joseph Gray (Saint Andrew Press 1994)
Edinburgh and Lothians Holy Corners (Saint Andrew Press 1996)
Mary Garden (Scolar Press 1997)
Edinburgh à la Carte (Scottish Cultural Press 1997)
Saint Andrew: Scotland's Myth and Identity (Saint Andrew Press 1997)
Scotland the Facts (Neil Wilson 1998)
Abbey Boys (corbie.com 2000)
Curious Edinburgh (Sutton Publishing, 2005)
St Peter’s Edinburgh (Edinburgh: St Peter’s, 2006)
Rosslyn Chapel Revealed (Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2007)

As an experienced lecturer, Michael T R B Turnbull is available for PowerPoint talks on his books to groups by arrangement. He is an author listed on the Scottish Book Trust register (supported by the Scottish Arts Council).