TURNBULL, Robert, clergyman, born in Whiteburn, Linlithgowshire, Scotland, 10 September, 1809; died at Hartford, Connecticut, 20 November, 1877. He was graduated at Glasgow university, and studied theology under Dr. Thomas Chalmers at Edinburgh. While thus engaged he became a Baptist, and preached for a short time in Scotland and England. In 1833 he came to this country, settling as pastor of the Baptist church in Danbury, Connecticut. After brief pastorates here, in Detroit, Hartford, and Boston, he returned in 1845 to Hartford, as minister of the 1st Baptist church, which relation continued for twenty-four years. Leaving the pastorate in 1869, he preached in various places, and served as secretary of the Connecticut Baptist state convention. In 1851 he received from Madison university the degree of D.D. to was for several years joint editor of the "Christian Review," and, besides numerous contributions to the periodical press, was the author of " The Theatre" (Boston, 1840); "Olympia Morata" (1842); Alexandre R. Vinet's " Vital Christianity," translated, with an introduction and notes (1846) ; "The Genius of Scotland " (New York, 1847) ; " The Genius of Italy " (1849) ; "Theophany, or the Manifestation of God in Christ" (Hartford, 1851); " Vinet's Miscellanies" (New York, 1852) ; " Pulpit Orators of France and Switzerland" (1853) ; " The Student Preacher" (1854); " The World We Live in" (1855) ; "Christ in History, or the Central Power" (Boston, 1856); and "Life Pictures, or Sketches from a Pastor's Note-Book (New York, 1857). He also edited Sir William Hamilton's "Discussions on Philosophy."