Lieutenant General Sir Thomas Patrick John Boyd-Carpenter, KBE (born 16 June 1938) is a former British Army officer who became Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff (Programmes and Personnel).

[1] He became commanding officer of 1st Battalion Scots Guards in 1979, Commander of 24th Infantry Brigade in 1983 and director, Defence Policy at the Ministry of Defence in 1985.

[2][1] In retirement, he became chairman of the Kensington & Chelsea and Westminster Heath Authority and then chairman of the Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

[3] Boyd-Carpenter's inherited Arms are blazoned "Paly of six, argent and gules, on a chevron azure, 3 cross crosslets or."

Supporters, two horses, party-perfess, embattled argent and gules.