Front Page Authors (by Period) George Turnbull

George Turnbull

1698 - 1748

About the Author

George Turnbull (1698-1748) was a lesser-known contemporary of Hutcheson, Hume, and Smith. He taught at Marischal College, Aberdeen, then became a traveling tutor, and ended his career as an Anglican clergyman, first as a chaplain to the Prince of Wales, then as a minister in Ireland. Turnbull was the first member of the Scottish Enlightenment to provide a formal treatise on the theory and practice of education.

In The Library:

• author: A Methodical System of Universal Law: Or, the Laws of Nature and Nations (1738)
• author: Observations upon Liberal Education, in All its Branches (1742)
• author: The Principles of Moral and Christian Philosophy, 2 vols. (1740)
• author: The Principles of Moral and Christian Philosophy. Vol. 1: The Principles of Moral Philosophy (1740)
• author: The Principles of Moral and Christian Philosophy. Vol. 2: Christian Philosophy (1740)