Sir Richard Gordon Turnbull, GCMG (7 July 1909[2] – 21 December 1998[3])[4] was a British colonial governor and the last governor of the British mandate of Tanganyika from 1958 to 1961.
[5] In 1958, he succeeded Edward Twining as governor of Tanganyika.
[5] Following the first elections to the Legislative Council, Turnbull appointed five members of Julius Nyerere's Tanganyika African National Union party.
[5] At the end of 1961, Tanganyika became independent with Nyerere as prime minister and Turnbull as governor-general.
He served for a year until Tanganyika became a republic in December 1962.