Sir Thomas George Owens Thurston, KBE (1869 – 22 January 1950) was a British naval architect in the early half of the 20th century.
Born Thomas George Owens in 1869, he trained in naval architecture in Liverpool and Newcastle upon Tyne and worked on mercantile shipbuilding.
He changed his name by deed poll in 1915 to Thomas George Owens Thurston prior to attaining his knighthood.
guns twin mounted in barbettes on the centre line, 2 forward and 2 aft, and an auxiliary armament of 4-in.
As it is quite possible satisfactorily to embody all of these features in a design of such displacement, it appears to me that anything short of this should not be accepted by any first-class Power under present conditions.