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Share Dermot said Turing wasn't unsociable, as is depicted in the film, but instead argued it was just that most other people, including his family, had no interest of understanding in his passion.  He believes that Alan's life 'started going wrong' after he was put on hormone therapy in the 1950s, when homosexuality was treated as 'some kind of mental condition.' Dermot said he believes much of what the British public believes about Alan is a myth, arguing Benedict Cumberbatch's portrayal in The Imitation Game was 'completely wrong'  Saying his uncle was 'treated like a lab rat', he said A...

Alfred Dillwyn Knox is not a widely recognised name, but his career as one of the UK’s leading cryptologists and codebreakers spanned some 30 years, and two world wars. For much of that time he lived in Naphill, and was a well-known and congenial figure in the locality. Dilly, as he was known, was born in Oxford on July 23 July, 1884, the fourth of six children of the Revd Edmund Arbuthnott Knox and his first wife, Ellen French. He went to Eton College as a King’s Scholar, became “Captain of School” and won the school’s main prize for mathematics. In 1903 he went to King’s C...

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Diary of Bletchley chief tells of moment special relationship was born Mark Nicol Diplomacy Editor For The Daily Mail © Provided by Daily Mail MailOnline logo A spy chief’s diary has revealed the secret help the US gave Britain’s codebreakers early in the Second World War. With the simple entry ‘The Ys [Yanks] are coming’, Commander Alastair Denniston, first head of the Government Code and Cypher School, which would become GCHQ, recorded the first visit of American cryptographers to Bletchley Park. At the time, February 10, 1941, Denniston was working there with Ala...

Code-breaker kept her secret for half a century January 13, 2021 — 1.14pm Normal text size Edith Jessie Flanders March 10, 1921-August 14, 2020 Almost 75 years after VP Day (Victory in the Pacific) Edith Jessie Flanders, intelligence decoder, farmer, author, and valued citizen, died peacefully in her sleep at her Casterton home, aged 99. Jess Flanders receiving the Red Cross 50 years medal from Jan de Kretser, wife of former Victorian governor David de Kretser. She had played her part in the war and kept it a secret for well over half a century. She and others had sworn to the Official Secr...