Extract from 'Bullseye', Clan Turnbull magazine:
The following request came from Dr David Ha Honorary Senior Research Fellow Department of Divinity and Religious Studies, King's College, Aberdeen University, Scotland
I am an academic researching material for a biography and I have a query about Gregor McGregor Turnbull who died of Yellow Fever in Trinidad in 1881. He was the son of Gregor Turnbull, a wealthy Glasgow merchant who owned numerous sugar plantations in Trinidad. Young Gregor married Elizabeth Hannah Clavering in Glasgow in 1880 and (I assume) they sailed for Trinidad shortly after the wedding. The story is tragic and is described in the Port of Spain Gazette for 20 August 1881 as “a sad, sad case” for apparently Gregor caught Yellow Fever and within two days had died. And thus "Mrs Turnbull was a wife, a mother, childless, and a widow in less than one short year". The issue for 27 August severely criticized the doctor, a Dr De Wolf, for abandoning his patient and leaving him to die in agony.”
Has any member of the Turnbull clan got information or historical records that would provide a more detailed account of this story? Elizabeth survived, returned to Britain and married again, this time to a Nottingham architect called Richard Hardy. They had three sons, one of whom was Alister Clavering Hardy who was to become a world famous marine biologist and Professor of Zoology at Oxford University. I am writing his biography ......../