Tomkyns Hilgrove Turner

General Sir Tomkyns Hilgrove Turner GCH KC (12 January 1764 – 6 May 1843) was a British Army officer best known for escorting the Rosetta Stone from Egypt to England.

[2] Turner and the Stone were on board the recently captured French ship HMS Egyptienne when it made its way to England in September, 1801.

He claimed that he had personally seized the Stone from General Jacques-François Menou and carried it away on a gun carriage.

[6][7] From 1812 to 1830 he held the post of Groom of the Bedchamber to George IV (including the period when the latter acted as Prince Regent during his father's mental illness).

Some years after his death Turner's children were involved in a lawsuit over the legacies left them in the wills of some Hilgrove kinsmen.