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Alfred Dillwyn "Dilly" Knox, CMG (23 July 1884 – 27 February 1943) was a British classics scholar and papyrologist at King's College, Cambridge and a codebreaker. As a member of the Room 40 codebreaking unit he helped decrypt the Zimmermann Telegram which brought the USA into the First World War.
4 apr 2021 · 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.
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Alfred Dillwyn (Dilly) Knox (23 July 1884 - 27 February 1943) was a British classics scholar, papyrologist and codebreaker. During WWI he worked at the Navy's Room 40 codebreaking unit, where he helped decrypt the Zimmermann Telegram, which brought the US into World War I [1] .
28 ott 2017 · Knox, full name Alfred Dillwyn Knox, grew up in Birmingham – although he went to school at Eton – because his father was Edmund Knox, vicar of Aston from 1891 when Dilly was seven, and of St...
The archetypical eccentric British boffin, Alfred Dillwyn "Dilly" Knox was educated at Summer Fields School, Eton College and King's College, Cambridge where he studied the classics. Knox was appointed a master at Cambridge in 1909 where he became an expert on ancient papyn, and during the Great War he was recruited as a codebreaker in ...
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Alfred Dillwyn Knox was born in July 1884, the fourth of six children. He went to Eton and entered King’s College, Cambridge in 1903. He remained at King’s as a Fellow, becoming distinguished as a classicist working on Greek papyri.
Dilly: The Man who Broke Enigmas. Mavis Batey. Dialogue, 2009 - Biography & Autobiography - 244 pages. Alfred Dillwyn Knox was a famously eccentric & temperamental codebreaker who...
