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Bletchley Park is an English country house and estate in Bletchley, Milton Keynes (Buckinghamshire), that became the principal centre of Allied code-breaking during the Second World War. The mansion was constructed during the years following 1883 for the financier and politician Herbert Leon in the Victorian Gothic , Tudor and Dutch Baroque ...
The Leon Baronetcy, of Bletchley Park in Bletchley in the County of Buckingham, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom.It was created on 5 July 1911 for Herbert Leon, a financier and Liberal Member of Parliament for Buckinghamshire North from 1891 to 1895.
Derek Taunt, arrived in Bletchley Park in August 1941, worked in Hut 6 (mathematician, later bursar of Jesus College, Cambridge) Telford Taylor, US Army (Counsel for the Prosecution at the Nuremberg Trials) Ralph Tester, linguist, head of the Testery and member of a TICOM team (accountant with Unilever) John Thompson, codebreaker [citation needed]
Through his paternal grandmother Audrey Haldinstein, he is a great-great-grandson of Herbert Leon, who owned Bletchley Park until he sold it to the British government in 1938. [4] Cecil Sebag-Montefiore, the author's great-grandfather, committed suicide after serving with the Royal Engineers on the western Front of World War I. [5]
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Charlotte Elizabeth Webb MBE (née Vine-Stevens; born 13 May 1923) [1] is an English code breaker [2] who worked at Bletchley Park during World War II at the age of 18. [3] [4] [5] Starting in 1941 she joined the British Auxiliary Territorial Service. [6]
In 2009, the Labour government under Gordon Brown awarded the women who worked at Bletchley Park a Bletchley Badge. [3] [14] Davies name is on a brick in the wall at Bletchley Park honouring those who worked in connection with the place. [3] [15] June 2019, Davies was awarded the Légion d'honneur, Military, the highest order of merit in France ...
The main crescent of Park Town, Oxford, built in 1853–54 to designs by Seckham. The main house at Bletchley Park. The estate was bought in 1877 and later developed by Seckham. Samuel Lipscomb Seckham (Oxford 25 October 1827 – 4 February 1901) was an English Victorian architect, developer, magistrate and brewer. [1]