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Clara Grace Thornton
Clara Grace Thornton (1913–1987) was a British diplomat, an academic, a translator and a code-breaker at Bletchley Park. She ended her career as Secretary of the Women's National Commission, the official advisory body founded in 1969 to ensure that UK Government policy took account of women in matters of public interest.''The Times'', Obituaries, 26 June 1987, accessed online at https://archive.org/stream/NewsUK1987UKEnglish/Jun%2026%201987%2C%20The%20Times%2C%20%2362805%2C%20UK%20%28en%29_djvu.txt Early life and education She was born on 27 June 1913; her father was a jeweller and silversmith and an alderman. Her secondary education was at Kettering High School.Newnham College Register, Vol II, pp.110-11 She studied at Newnham College, Cambridge, matriculating in 1932. At the time, women could not receive full degrees from the University of Cambridge. She took Part I English Tripos, and then the Archaeology and Anthropology Tripos (B), receiving a 1st class mark in her exam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bletchley Park
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 Sir Herbert Leon in the Victorian Gothic, Tudor, and Dutch Baroque styles, on the site of older buildings of the same name. During World War II, the estate housed the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS), which regularly penetrated the secret communications of the Axis Powersmost importantly the German Enigma and Lorenz ciphers. The GC&CS team of codebreakers included Alan Turing, Gordon Welchman, Hugh Alexander, Bill Tutte, and Stuart Milner-Barry. The nature of the work at Bletchley remained secret until many years after the war. According to the official historian of British Intelligence, the "Ultra" intelligence produced at Bletchley shortened the war by two to four years, and without it th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
