Bletchley Park female codebreakers
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Bletchley Park female codebreakers
There is a mention of Stuart Milner-Barry here:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/ ... debreakers
"Cambridge college unmasks alumnae who were Bletchley Park codebreakers" (Guardian article)
Lots of connections with Newnham College:
"These included the principal, Pernel Strachey, sister of Oliver Strachey, who worked in British military intelligence as a cryptographer. Oliver’s wife, Ray Costelloe, a suffragist who had studied mathematics at Newnham, also helped to find and recruit the 77 women, along with Stuart Milner-Barry, who was in charge of Hut 6 – and happened to be the brother of Alda Milner-Barry, a former vice-principal of Newnham."
I wonder how many of the 77 women played chess?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/ ... debreakers
"Cambridge college unmasks alumnae who were Bletchley Park codebreakers" (Guardian article)
Lots of connections with Newnham College:
"These included the principal, Pernel Strachey, sister of Oliver Strachey, who worked in British military intelligence as a cryptographer. Oliver’s wife, Ray Costelloe, a suffragist who had studied mathematics at Newnham, also helped to find and recruit the 77 women, along with Stuart Milner-Barry, who was in charge of Hut 6 – and happened to be the brother of Alda Milner-Barry, a former vice-principal of Newnham."
I wonder how many of the 77 women played chess?
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Re: Bletchley Park female codebreakers
Pernel Strachey's sister Marjorie certainly played chess, so it's quite likely she did as well.
https://streathambrixtonchess.blogspot. ... achey.html
https://streathambrixtonchess.blogspot. ... achey.html
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Re: Bletchley Park female codebreakers
Don't tell Gary Kenworthy of this thread whatever you do!
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Re: Bletchley Park female codebreakers
Dare one ask why?John Upham wrote: ↑Sun Mar 17, 2024 1:22 pmDon't tell Gary Kenworthy of this thread whatever you do!
"Set up your attacks so that when the fire is out, it isn't out!" (H N Pillsbury)
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I fear that we will all find out soon enough.Matt Mackenzie wrote: ↑Sun Mar 17, 2024 3:33 pmDare one ask why?John Upham wrote: ↑Sun Mar 17, 2024 1:22 pmDon't tell Gary Kenworthy of this thread whatever you do!
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Re: Bletchley Park female codebreakers
The answer appears to lie in postings on LinkedIn by a Gary Kenworthy who appears to be the same as the chess FM. Unless it is someone pretending to be him. You would hope this thread could stay on topic, on the possible chess connections of the female codebreakers.
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Re: Bletchley Park female codebreakers
Passing over Bletchley Park for a moment, another Linkedin posting reads "When I was a Director of the British Chess Federation, the extent of date rape drugs for sex by English arbiters was heavily covered up". Anyone care to elucidate?
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Re: Bletchley Park female codebreakers
N.A. Perkins was at Bletchley, as was his wife Gertrude S. Perkins.
https://www.chessscotland.com/documents ... erkins.htm
https://bletchleypark.org.uk/roll-of-honour/7162/
https://bletchleypark.org.uk/roll-of-honour/7159/
https://www.chessscotland.com/documents ... erkins.htm
https://bletchleypark.org.uk/roll-of-honour/7162/
https://bletchleypark.org.uk/roll-of-honour/7159/
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I don't suppose anyone has noticed but I've been wearing the yellow, black and maroon scarf of Newnham College every winter for the last twenty-odd years. It's an enigma but it keeps me warm.
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Re: Bletchley Park female codebreakers
David,David Gilbert wrote: ↑Mon Mar 18, 2024 12:04 amI don't suppose anyone has noticed but I've been wearing the yellow, black and maroon scarf of Newnham College every winter for the last twenty-odd years. It's an enigma but it keeps me warm.
Perchance are you friends with Mark Howitt or Alan Llewelyn?
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Re: Bletchley Park female codebreakers
I don't think he has an account here any more, so perhaps not.John Upham wrote: ↑Sun Mar 17, 2024 3:38 pmI fear that we will all find out soon enough.Matt Mackenzie wrote: ↑Sun Mar 17, 2024 3:33 pmDare one ask why?John Upham wrote: ↑Sun Mar 17, 2024 1:22 pmDon't tell Gary Kenworthy of this thread whatever you do!
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I asked GK about this and his "reason" (don't use the meaning of this word literally) wasMatt Mackenzie wrote: ↑Mon Mar 18, 2024 3:26 pmI don't think he has an account here any more, so perhaps not.
Make of that what you will. I was not able to decipher it.I cannot post on EC Forum ,as my account was taken over by one of MI6 trained chess bluffer Boris Johnson/ GCHQ Cheltenham chess cheat, Dr Simon Cases spooks / bots who did very clever AI editing of my posts and fake news newsstreams to my browser to discredit me -- ...etc so the EC Forum account is thus blocked.
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Re: Bletchley Park female codebreakers
Shaun Taulbut's mum worked there ..