Deone Bartlet obituary

The Guardian
Thursday 10 February 2011

Deone Bartlet obituary
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Michael Bartlet

My mother, Deone Bartlet, who has died aged 85, was born Deone Vernham in 
Buckinghamshire, to an English mother and a half-French father whose 
warmth and sense of humour she inherited. She had many memories of a 
happy, pre-second world war childhood spent in Australia and New Zealand, 
including riding to school on a horse and - less pleasantly - being 
bitten by a koala.

In the late 1930s, with war clouds gathering, the family returned to 
Britain. On the boat back they witnessed the spectre of Italian submarines 
sailing though the Suez canal. In 1942 Deone was recruited to work at the 
codebreaking centre at Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, where the unusual 
lives of people whom she met gave her an early interest in psychology.

After the war she was one of the first to study psychology at University 
College London, and in 1951 she was on the first diploma course at the 
Maudsley hospital, Denmark Hill, south London, where she made friendships 
that lasted throughout her life and where she met her husband, Eric 
Bartlet...../snip/


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