Dilly Knox
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| Gender | Female |
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| Death | 80 years ago |
| Date of birth | July 23,1884 |
| Zodiac sign | Leo |
| Born | Headington |
| Oxford | |
| United Kingdom | |
| Date of died | February 27,1943 |
| Died | Hughenden Valley |
| United Kingdom | |
| Parents | Edmund Knox |
| Siblings | Ronald Knox |
| E. V. Knox | |
| Job | Mathematician |
| Cryptographer | |
| Education | Eton College |
| King's College, Cambridge | |
| Children | 2 |
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| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 502207 |
Dilly Knox Life story
Alfred Dillwyn "Dilly" Knox, CMG 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. He then joined the Government Code and Cypher School.
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