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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. [1] .
28 paź 2017 · October 30 marks 75 years since the capture of codebooks which enabled Turing and his team to break the German naval Enigma code. Enigma code breaker Dilly Knox. But the groundwork had already...
23 mar 2012 · A key figure in trying to understand it was Dilly Knox, a classicist who had been working on breaking ciphers since World War I.
4 kwi 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.
25 sty 2015 · Leading male codebreaker Dillwyn "Dilly" Knox was an eccentric classics scholar - an expert in ancient Papyrus. He specifically requested an all-female team to work with, who were nicknamed...
25 maj 2024 · Dilly Knox: A classicist and papyrologist who had worked in codebreaking since World War I. At Bletchley, he led Hut 8, focusing on breaking Enigma as used by the German Abwehr intelligence service. John Tiltman: A veteran codebreaker who had also worked in WWI.
As at Bletchley Park, Room 40 and MI1 (b) had its share of brilliant eccentrics, such as ‘Dilly’ Knox, who was in fact active as a codebreaker in both wars (until his death in 1943).
