Fawcett, Jane
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Name (Latin)
Fawcett, Jane
Other forms of name
Hughes, Jane Carolin
Hughes, Jane Caroline
Hughes, Janet Carolin
Hughes, Janet Caroline
Date of birth
1921-03-04
Date of death
2016-05-21
Field of activity
Architecture--Conservation and restoration
Enigma cipher system
Occupation
Cryptographers
Singers
Associated Language
eng
Gender
female
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Sources of Information
- New York times WWW site, viewed May 31, 2016(in obituary published May 28: Jane Fawcett; Janet Carolin Hughes; b. Mar. 4, 1921, probably in Cambridge, where her paternal grandmother lived, her son said, though her family lived in London; there is some uncertainty about her middle name; Michael Smith, author of The debs of Bletchley Park and other stories, said that it was Caroline at birth and that she dropped the e later on, just as she dropped the t in Janet; m. Edward Fawcett, known as Ted (d. 2013); d. May 21, Oxford, aged 95; was a reluctant London debutante when she went to work at Bletchley Park, the home of British code-breaking during World War II, and was credited with identifying a message that led to a great Allied naval success, the sinking of the battleship Bismarck; after the war, she had a career as a singer, and later as a preservationist; taught building preservation at the Architectural Association School of Architecture)
- The Future of the past. 1976.