Turrell (name)
Turrell may refer to the following people: ;Given or middle name *Estelle Turrell Smith (1854–?), American social reformer * Turrell V. Wylie (1927–1984), American scholar, Tibetologist and sinologist ;Surname *Edmund Turrell (died 1835), British engraver *James Turrell (born 1943), American artist *Noël Turrell Noël Turrell (27 October 1947 – 7 July 2006) was a French biathlete. He competed in the relay event at the 1972 Winter Olympics The 1972 Winter Olympics, officially the and commonly known as Sapporo 1972 ( ja, 札幌1972), was a win ... (born 1947), French Olympic biathlete See also * Turell {{Given name, type=both ...
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Estelle Turrell Smith
Estelle Turrell Smith (born October 30, 1854) was an American social reformer. Early life Estelle Turrell Smith was born in Forest Lake Township, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, on October 30, 1854. Her father's people were among the first settlers of Pennsylvania, emigrating at an early day from Connecticut. Her mother's family were Quakers. Her mother's maiden name was Gurney, and she was a descendant of Joseph John Gurney and Elizabeth Fry. In childhood Smith was thought old for her years, was fond of poetry and music, and delighted in the studies of natural science. She became early acquainted with the fauna and flora about her country home. Her studies commenced at home and were pursued in the Montrose Academy, Montrose, Pennsylvania. Career She started to teach when seventeen years of age, at the same time continuing her special studies, then among the masters of art and song. In 1875 she moved with her parents to Longmont, Colorado. She taught two years in the State ...
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Turrell V
Turrell may refer to * Margaret Hoberg Turrell, composer * Turrell, Arkansas, a city in the United States ** Turrell School District ** Old Turrell City Hall * Salmon Turrell Farmstead, a historic home and farm in Indiana, U.S. * Turrell (name) * Smoove & Turrell, a British musical group *Accles-Turrell The Accles-Turrell was an English automobile built between 1899 and 1901 in Perry Bar, Birmingham, England and from 1901 to 1902 in Ashton-under-Lyne. The company began in 1899 when the British pioneer motorist Charles McRobie Turrell, who had ...

Edmund Turrell
Edmund Turrell (1781 – May 1835) was an English engraver and civil engineer. Biography He lived at 46 Somers Town, London. Nothing has been discovered about his ancestry and early life. He was involved with the civil engineer Thomas Telford, for whom he engraved the 65 plates in Telford's autobiography. Turrell was elected an Associate of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1823. He also was known as an architectural engraver, and employed James Carter early in his career; he may have also written his surname as "Tyrrel". When steel engraving was introduced to the art world in the 1820s by Jacob Perkins, in 1824 Turrell received three gold medals from the Society of Arts for his etching fluid, composed of pyroligneous acid, nitric acid, and alcohol. He married Mary Anne Rawles in 1833 in Camden. He died aged 53 or 54 and was buried 24 May 1835 at St Marylebone Parish Church, Westminster.''London, England, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-2003'' Writings * "Des ...
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James Turrell
James Turrell (born May 6, 1943) is an American artist known for his work within the Light and Space movement. Much of Turrell's career has been devoted to a still-unfinished work, '' Roden Crater'', a natural cinder cone crater located outside Flagstaff, Arizona, that he is turning into a massive naked-eye observatory; and for his series of skyspaces, enclosed spaces that frame the sky. Turrell was a MacArthur Fellow in 1984. Background James Turrell was born in Los Angeles, California. His father, Archibald Milton Turrell,Adcock, Craig, ''James Turrell: The Art of Light and Space'', Berkeley/Los Angeles/Oxford : University of California Press, 1990, p. 2. was an aeronautical engineer and educator. His mother, Margaret Hodges Turrell, trained as a medical doctor and later worked in the Peace Corps. His parents were Quakers. Turrell obtained a pilot's license when he was 16 years old. Later, registered as a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War, he flew Buddhist ...
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Noël Turrell
Noël Turrell (27 October 1947 – 7 July 2006) was a French biathlete. He competed in the relay event at the 1972 Winter Olympics The 1972 Winter Olympics, officially the and commonly known as Sapporo 1972 ( ja, 札幌1972), was a winter multi-sport event held from February 3 to 13, 1972, in Sapporo, Japan. It was the first Winter Olympic Games to take place outside Europe .... References External links * 1947 births 2006 deaths French male biathletes Olympic biathletes for France Biathletes at the 1972 Winter Olympics Sportspeople from Ain Skiers from Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes {{France-biathlon-bio-stub ...
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