CHRISTOPHER•ALLEN•SMITH•WINTON Family Tree - Person Sheet
CHRISTOPHER•ALLEN•SMITH•WINTON Family Tree - Person Sheet
NameLeslie Newton CHOWN [462], 3C1R
Birth Date31 Mar 1926 [462], [980]
Birth PlaceWolverhampton, Staffordshire, England
MemoBirths Jun Qtr 1926; CHOWN, Leslie N., mother's maiden=Newton, Wolverhampton District, vol.6b, p.904
Death Date27 Oct 2013 [4486] Age: 87
Alias/AKAJohn CHOWN [4486], [4487]
OccupationProfessor of Mathematics - Head of Department, Tettenhall College [979], [4485, p. 549]
EducationBalliol College, Oxford, 1943-4 [4485, p. 549]
EducationOxford (Balliol): BA (Math) 1949, MA 1950 [979], [4485, p. 549]
FatherRev. Joseph Leslie CHOWN (1890-1982)
MotherClara A. NEWTON (ca1898-)
Misc. Notes
Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society. [1461]

Service: FO Civilian; Rank or Grade: TJSO; BP Sep 1944 - Sep 1945. Block F, Newmanry, Sep 1944 - May 1945. Block F, JAFO May - Aug 1945. Cryptanalyst. (BP = Bletchley Park National Codes Centre). [2136]
Newmanry was part of the British codebreaking station during World War II at Bletchley Park. [1462]

BP Source No.4. 1939 – 1945. Civilian List. This list, produced in December 1948, contains over 2000 names of civilian staff, most at Bletchley Park. It is not comprehensive, as many staff are known only through information at source 7. (HW14/156)

BP Source No.7. Historical Survey, Posthumous and Freedom Nomination Forms. Information from veterans and their relatives and colleagues, included that collected by Margaret and Tony Sale.
Spouses
Marr DateJul 1961 [4487], [4488], [4486]
Marr PlaceStaffordshire, England
Marr MemoBilston Registration District (includes Tettenhall)
Last Modified 15 Sep 2015Created 8 Nov 2024 using Reunion for Macintosh
First Published 22 Sep 2013. Revised 8 Nov 2024
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