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Authorised form of nameTurner; Sir; Tomkyns Hilgrove (1764 - 1843)
Dates1764 - 1843
Date of birth12 January 1764
Place of deathAt his residence, Gowray, Jersey
Date of death07 May 1843
OccupationSoldier
ActivityCareer:
Commissioned as ensign in the 3rd Footguards; Lieutenant (1789); served in Egypt (1801) and brought the Rosetta Stone back to England (1802); Brigadier General (1804); Major General (1808); Lieutenant General (1813); Governor of the Bermudas (1825)
Honours:
Kt 1814; KCH 1819; GCH 1827
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election06/12/1804
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Notes:
Does not appear on PL after 1810. Some of the dates of the sovereign's honours vary in the different sources. Shaw's 'Knight's...' ; Biog by AF Loveday 1964 has been followed.
CodeNA1901
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1804/08Turner, Sir Tomkyns Hilgrove: certificate of election to the Royal Society
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