General Sir Tomkyns Hilgrove Turner

Executor and trustee of will of Francis or Frances Jennings. Soldier, in ODNB, responsible for bringing the Rosetta stone to England.
Had a distinguished career as a soldier and, among other things, 12 June 1814 – March 1816: Lieutenant-governor of Jersey and commander of the troops there. 1825-1831/32: governor of Bermuda, a post in which he remained for six years. At some point after 1832 he retired to Jersey, ‘where he encouraged the artist Millais’. Died at his home, Govray Lodge, Jersey, and was buried in Grouville churchyard.
His wife - they married on 24 March 1795 'at the Catholic chapel at Wildhausen, Westphalia (confirmed by a protestant ceremony at Greenwich on 24 February 1803)' - was the adopted daughter of the French royalist L'Oignon family.

R. H. Vetch, ‘Turner, Sir (Tomkyns) Hilgrove (1764–1843)’, rev. S. Kinross, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2004), http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/27873 [accessed 12/01/2013].