Roland Evelyn Turnbull

Roland Evelyn Turnbull KCMG (* 1905, † December 23, 1960 ) was a British colonial administrator and governor of British North Borneo.

Biography

Turnbull, son of George Turnbull, visited the King's College London and St John's Collegem, Oxford. In 1929 he joined the British Colonial Service and was from 1934 to the Malay Peninsula in Terengganu and Brunei in active. From 1940 to 1943 he was Colonial Secretary in British Honduras and during the war from 1943 to 1945 used in the Defense of the United Kingdom. After that was in Cyprus to 1950 Colonial Secretary. On September 9, 1948, he married Sylvia Emily Woodman Burbidge, a daughter of Sir Richard Woodman Burbidge, 2nd Baronet from 1950 to 1953 he was in Cape Town Chief Secretary and Deputy High Commissioner for Basutoland, Bechuanaland and Swaziland (BBS ).

In his last position he was from March 4, 1959 Governor of North Borneo. In this use, he was knighted in 1956.