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Richard Turner (geologist)

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Dr '''Richard Turner''' MD [[FRSE]] OBE (1856–1940) was a 19th/20th century Scottish physician, archaeologist and geologist.

==Life==

He was born in [[Ratho]], west of [[Edinburgh]], in 1856, the son of John Turner, a farmer.

He studied Medicine at [[Edinburgh University]] graduating MB ChB in 1880. He practiced as a GP in [[York]].

In the [[First World War]] he served the military hospitals in the York area. He received a military OBE in 1919.<ref>London Gazette January 1919</ref> He was President of the Yorkshire branch of the [[British Medical Association]].

He retired to [[Peebles]] in 1921 and began to indulge his geological interests. He contributed many samples to the [[Royal Museum of Scotland]] in [[Edinburgh]] and reorganised and catalogued the entire geological collection. He undertook archaeological excavations at [[Romanno]] and [[Dunsyre]] in 1928.<ref>Proceedings of the Royal Society of Antiquaries 1929</ref> He was made a Burgess of Peebles in 1923.<ref>Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1941</ref>

He was elected a Fellow of the [[Royal Society of Edinburgh]] in 1924. His proposers were [[John Horne]], [[David Balsillie]], Sir [[John Smith Flett]] and [[Thomas James Jehu]].<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>

He died in [[Edinburgh]] on 9 April 1940.

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[[Category:Scottish archaeologists]]
[[Category:Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh]]



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