Promoter of The Turkish Bath
Urquhart introduced Turkish baths into Great Britain. He advocated their use in his book Pillars of Hercules (1850), which attracted the attention of the Irish physician Richard Barter. Barter introduced them in his system of hydropathy at Blarney, County Cork. The Turkish baths in Jermyn Street, London were built under Urquhart's direction.
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