Edith Gordon was quite clearly a remarkable woman. She married two admirals, the second was Admiral Brind, and she clearly played a role in shaping the most secret establishment of World War II, Bletchley Park. This was where they broke the Germans top secret Enigma code. It was the place where one of the pioneers of computing A M Turing first started working with highly sophisticated de-coding machines.
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IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Blagrove E G
Held at: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London
Title: BLAGROVE, Superintendant Edith Gordon, (Lady Brind) (1895-1979)
Date(s): Created [1945], 1978-1979
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 file
Name of creator(s): Blagrove | Edith Gordon | 1895-1979 | Superintendant | wife of Admiral Henry Evelyn Charles Blagrove | later wife of Admiral Sir Patrick Eric James Brind
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history: Born in 1895; served World War Two as Superintendent in the WRNS; in charge of HMS PEMBROKE V at Bletchley Park decoding centre and outstations, 1944-1945; died in 1979.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract: Copies of papers relating to her work as an WRNS administrator at Bletchley Park Decoding Centre, notably two drafts of a text on WRNS at Bletchley Park, [1945], an account of the employment of WRNS at Bletchley Park and outstations, [1945]; copy photograph of Blagrove and her assistant Doreen Scott, [1944], and photocopies of photographs of buildings and WRNS personnel at Walton Hall, Wavenden, Gayhurst and Eastcote, 1944-1945; copies of papers relating to a reunion of ex-HMS PEMBROKE V WRNS personnel, 1978, notably a text of Blagrove's speech on HMS PEMBROKE V and an attendance list; copy of obituary from The Wren, Jun 1979.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement: 1 file
Conditions governing access: Open, sibject to signature of reader's undertaking form.
Conditions governing reproduction: Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the Director of Archive Services.
Finding aids: Summary guide available on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm, and in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition: Copies made by the Centre in 1984 from originals loaned by the family.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material: The Centre also holds the papers of Blagrove's second husband, Adm Sir Patrick Brind (GB99 KCLMA Brind), which include a letter of condolence to Blagrove on the death of her first husband, R Adm H E C Blagrove, from Adm Sir Reginald Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax, 1939; the papers of her father-in-law, Col Henry John Blagrove (GB99 KCLMA Blagrove H J) and those of her brother-in-law, Capt Peter Blagrove (GB99 KCLMA Blagrove P).
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Date(s) of descriptions: Jul 1996
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Admiral Sir E J Patrick Brind 1892-1963. |
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