About Bertrand Turnbull
Lived 1887 – 1943 (aged 56). Bertrand Turnbull was a British field hockey player and cricketer.
Welsh Hockey Team vs Scotland, 1911. (B Turnbull Bottom Row, 5th to the left) Bertrand Turnbull (19 April 1887 – 17 November 1943) was a field hockey player from Wales, who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics and won a bronze medal. He also played first-class cricket for Gloucestershire in one match.
Biography Turnbull was educated at Downside College in Bath and played club hockey for Cardiff Hockey Club from 1906. He would later play for Penarth and would captain Wales in 1914.
With only six teams participating in the field hockey tournament at the 1908 Olympic Games in London, he represented Wales under the Great British flag, where the team were awarded a bronze medal despite Wales only playing in and losing one match. He played as a goalkeeper for Wales and both he and his cousin Philip Turnbull were in the team.
His only taste of first-class cricket came in 1911 when he appeared as a wicketkeeper in a match for Gloucestershire against Cambridge University at Fenner's Cricket Ground, Cambridge. In a low-scoring match, he top-scored with an unbeaten 28 in Gloucestershire's first innings, but was out for seven in the second innings; he made one stumping. He also played Minor Counties cricket for Glamorgan.
He died in Canton, Cardiff, on 17 November 1943.
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Who was Bertrand Turnbull?
field hockey player (1887-1943)
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Bertrand Turnbull was born on 19 April 1887 in Cardiff.
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Bertrand Turnbull died on 17 November 1943 in Cardiff.
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Bertrand Turnbull was a field hockey player and cricketer.
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Bertrand Turnbull was British.
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