• 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...
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  • Look up dilly in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Dilly may refer to: Dilly, Mali, a village and rural commune Dilly, Wisconsin, United States, an unincorporated...
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  • American football player Dilly Knox (1884-1943), British codebreaker and scholar of Greek at King's College, Cambridge Dudley Wright Knox (1877-1960), Commodore...
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  • working first in London before moving to Bletchley Park. He worked with Dilly Knox and Alan Turing on German Enigma ciphers. In early 1942, he became the...
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  • Parrish (1894—1941), American writer, illustrator and painter Dilly Knox, born Alfred Dillwyn Knox (1884–1943), British codebreaker John Dillwyn Llewelyn (1810–1882)...
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    was analysed and reported. Although a leading British cryptographer, Dilly Knox (a veteran of World War I and the cryptanalytical activities of the Royal...
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  • Khorasan (ISK or IS-K) Intelligence Services Knox, a British WW2 decryption office operated by Dilly Knox Internationaler Sozialistischer Kampfbund (German:...
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  • of the theologian and crime writer Ronald Knox, the cryptographer Dillwyn Knox, the Bible scholar Wilfred Knox, and the novelist and biographer Winifred...
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    and for the work performed there by scholars such as Alan Turing and Dilly Knox. This work, though secret until 1974, had a significant impact on the...
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  • codebreaker, whom she married in 1942. Mavis Batey wrote a biography of Dilly Knox: ‘Dilly: The Man Who Broke Enigmas’. The book gives a summary of the government...
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  • Ronald Knox, the codebreaker Dilly Knox, the Anglican priest and New Testament scholar Wilfred Knox, the author Winifred Peck, and Ethel Knox. His daughter...
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    cryptanalysis of the Enigma cipher machine used by Nazi Germany, together with Dilly Knox, a senior GC&CS codebreaker. Soon after the July 1939 meeting near Warsaw...
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  • Mary Eleanor Jessie Knox née Shepard (25 December 1909 – 4 September 2000) was an English illustrator of children's books. She is best known for the Mary...
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    near Warsaw, British military intelligence representatives including Dilly Knox, Alastair Denniston and Humphrey Sandwith were introduced by their allied...
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  • parliamentary Speaker in The Madness of George III. His last stage role was as Dilly Knox in Breaking the Code in 1987. Selby died in London on 14 September 2010...
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    Schlüsselgerät 41. The Abwehr code had been broken on 8 December 1941 by Dilly Knox. Agents sent messages to the Abwehr in a simple code which was then sent...
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    cryptanalytic treatment. The commercial versions were not as secure and Dilly Knox of GC&CS is said to have broken one before the war. German military Enigma...
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  • Italian Diplomatic section. In the 1930s, Anderson collaborated with Dilly Knox on building the Hungarian codebreaking books. She also managed and trained...
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  • BTM engineer who built the British bombes Marjorie Jean Oswald Kennedy Dilly Knox, leading cryptologist, cracked the code of the commercial Enigma machines...
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    Friedman William F. Friedman Meredith Gardner Friedrich Kasiski Al-Kindi Dilly Knox Solomon Kullback Marian Rejewski Joseph Rochefort, whose contributions...
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  • before the outbreak of war, Denniston was one of three Britons (along with Dilly Knox and Humphrey Sandwith) who participated in the trilateral Polish-French-British...
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    agency's fears were allayed when Christie told her friend, the codebreaker Dilly Knox, "I was stuck there on my way by train from Oxford to London and took...
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  • as Sara Turing Harold Pinter as John Smith Richard Johnson as Dilwyn 'Dilly' Knox Amanda Root as Patricia 'Pat' Green Julian Kerridge as Ron Miller Derek...
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    while at Eton and Cambridge; significant among these early partners were Dilly Knox and Daniel Macmillan. Keynes was open about his affairs, and from 1901...
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    rotors, the indicator, were much more complex for naval messages. In 1940 Dilly Knox, the veteran World War I codebreaker, Frank Birch, head of Bletchley Park's...
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    moved from London to Bletchley Park included John Tiltman, Dillwyn "Dilly" Knox, Josh Cooper, Oliver Strachey and Nigel de Grey. These people had a variety...
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    the grace of God and Dilly He was the brains behind them all And should ne'er be forgotten. Will he? — [W.F. Clarke on Dilly Knox] For decades after the...
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    as the Poles' contribution to the common defense against Nazi Germany. Dilly Knox had already broken Spanish Nationalist messages on a commercial Enigma...
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  • Park. MI5's fears were eventually assuaged when Christie revealed to Dilly Knox, who helped break the Enigma machine cypher used by German secret service...
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  • hand ciphers and Abwehr Enigma ciphers followed on 8 November 1941 by Dilly Knox, agents sent messages to the Abwehr in the simple code which was then...
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