Sir Alexander Kingcome Turner KBE QC (18 November 1901 – 7 July 1993) was an Auckland-born New Zealand lawyer and judge.
He was one of four children, all sons, born to Joseph Hurst Turner, a teacher, and his wife, Gertrude Kingcome Reid, daughter of a Methodist minister, and attended Mount Eden School and Auckland Grammar School.
Turner graduated from Auckland University College (BA, 1921; MA with first-class honours in economics, 1922; LLB, 1923).
[1] On retiring from the Court of Appeal, Turner joined the legal publisher Butterworths of New Zealand as a director and editor-in-chief,[3] a post he was active in until shortly before his death.
In his 70s and 80s, he updated a series of textbooks originally written by George Spencer Bower in the early years of the 20th century: Actionable Misrepresentation was published in 1974 and by Representation in 1977.