Sir John Dermot Turing, 12th Baronet (born 26 February 1961) is a British

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and author.

Education

Turing was educated at

Sherborne School (God and My Right) , established = 705 by Aldhelm, re-founded by King Edward VI 1550 , closed = , type = Public school Independent, boarding school , religion = Church of England , president = , chair_label = Chairman of the governors , ...

and

King's College, Cambridge King's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Formally The King's College of Our Lady and Saint Nicholas in Cambridge, the college lies beside the River Cam and faces out onto King's Parade in the centre of the city ...

. He then undertook a

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degree in genetics of the fruit fly as a postgraduate student of

New College, Oxford New College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1379 by William of Wykeham in conjunction with Winchester College as its feeder school, New College is one of the oldest colleges at th ...

Career

After his DPhil, Turing moved into the legal profession initially as an

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solicitor. He then worked at the international law firm Clifford Chance, where he was a partner until 2014 and latterly a consultant. He specialized in the financial sector, especially with respect to failed banks,

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, and risk management. In 2012, the centenary year of his uncle

Alan Turing Alan Mathison Turing (; 23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954) was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher, and theoretical biologist. Turing was highly influential in the development of theoretical com ...

's birth, Dermot Turing became a trustee of Bletchley Park, where Alan Turing worked as a

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during

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. In 2015 he wrote a book on Alan Turing, '' Prof: Alan Turing Decoded'', and in 2017 he contributed a chapter to ''

The Turing Guide ''The Turing Guide'', written by Jack Copeland, Jonathan Bowen, Mark Sprevak, Robin Wilson, and others and published in 2017, is a book about the work and life of the British mathematician, philosopher, and early computer scientist, Alan Turi ...

''. He is a member of the European Post-Trade Forum and a trustee of the

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. His interests also include

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and

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. Dermot Turing has commented on the accuracy of the 2014 film ''

The Imitation Game ''The Imitation Game'' is a 2014 American historical drama film directed by Morten Tyldum and written by Graham Moore, based on the 1983 biography '' Alan Turing: The Enigma'' by Andrew Hodges. The film's title quotes the name of the game cry ...

'', a dramatization of Alan Turing's life. In 2018 he published '' X, Y & Z: The Real Story of How Enigma Was Broken''.

Awards and honours

In 2020, he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the

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for highlighting the role of the

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in breaking the Enigma code. He is a visiting

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Personal life

Turing is the nephew of Alan Turing and the 12th

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in the Turing baronetcy. He is the son of John Ferrier Turing and Beryl Mary Ada Turing née Hann. In 1986, he married Nicola Jane Simmonds, daughter of Malcolm Douglas Simmonds. In 1987, he succeeded his third cousin as the 12th Turing Baronet. He has two sons: John Malcolm Ferrier, his

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(born 1988) and James Robert Edward (born 1991)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Turing, Dermot 1961 births Living people People educated at Sherborne School Alumni of King's College, Cambridge Alumni of New College, Oxford 20th-century English lawyers 21st-century English lawyers English biographers Baronets in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia Alan Turing Knights of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland