Fwd: OBITUARY : Michael Ramsbotham

Wednesday September 14 2016

OBITUARY : Michael Ramsbotham
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Intelligence analyst who conducted an illicit affair at Bletchley Park
and inspired the poet Henry Reed

Michael Ramsbotham was part of a team of four working on Italian traffic
around the clock

Like many of his generation, Michael Ramsbotham learnt young that all
was fair in love and war. At 21 he was entrusted with the task of
analysing naval intelligence from broken codes at Bletchley Park. There
he was to meet and become the muse of the poet Henry Reed.

Ramsbotham never knew why he was chosen to work at Bletchley. He
speculated that it was the influence of his Cambridge tutor, the
historian JH Plumb, who was also at Bletchley, or perhaps of his
relation Vernon Kell, the wartime head of MI5. A cousin of his, Hugh
Trevor-Roper,....


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