Bill Turnbull, the late broadcaster, has been honoured with an annual reward for medical students.
The former BBC Breakfast presenter died in August last year, aged 66, at his home in Suffolk, after a five-year battle with prostate cancer.
It has now been confirmed that he will be awarded a scholarship for pupils attending a Cambridge University college.
Turnbull worked with Roger Mosey, who is currently Master of Cambridge’s Selwyn College.
Turnbull has also given presentations about the media and his profession at Selwyn College throughout the years, and an award has been established in his honour with the approval of his family.
The Bill Turnbull Award for Clinical Medicine will be awarded to a Selwyn medical student in their fourth to sixth year of study.
It is backed by a ‘initial five-figure gift’ in Turnbull’s name from private contributors.
Several Selwyn College students receive some of their training at Ipswich Hospital in Suffolk.
This hospital was one of the venues where Turnbull had cancer treatment.
In addition, a travel fund will be established at the institution to honour Turnbull’s love of the United States, where he worked as a BBC journalist in New York and subsequently Washington.
It will provide £1,000 each summer to students who desire to travel to the United States for academic purposes.
‘Bill would be so honoured to be remembered with this prize and scholarship from Selwyn College,’ his widow Sesi Turnbull said.
‘Throughout his life he had a strong connection with America, where we lived as a family for some years while he was working as a BBC correspondent.
‘Towards the end of his life, after moving to Suffolk, Bill received outstanding care from Ipswich Hospital, for which we will always be grateful.’
It was ‘great to know that others would have the opportunity to deepen their studies in areas that were so important to Bill’s heart,’ she added.
Turnbull, according to Master of Selwyn College Roger Mosey, is a “wonderful friend” of the institution.
‘[He] would be here frequently, generously donating his time to talk to kids about his profession and how they may get into journalism themselves,’ he added.
‘I’m overjoyed that his name will now be forever linked to an award and assistance for future generations of students.’
Sally Nugent, a BBC Breakfast presenter, shed tears last month as she recalled the ‘great’ Turnbull on what would have been his 67th birthday.
Sally and co-host Nina Warhurst felt upset when watching a film of the ‘wonderful man’ in memory of their former colleague.
‘He was just brilliant to work with’, Sally said.
She added that he was a ‘very, very kind, very wise’ person.
BBC Breakfast airs weekdays from 6am on BBC One.
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