| LC control no. | n 50000083 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Fawcett, Jane |
| Variant(s) | Hughes, Janet Carolin Hughes, Janet Caroline Hughes, Jane Caroline Hughes, Jane Carolin |
| Located | London (England) |
| Birth date | 1921-03-04 |
| Death date | 2016-05-21 |
| Place of birth | Cambridge (England) |
| Place of death | Oxford (England) |
| Field of activity | Enigma cipher system Architecture--Conservation and restoration |
| Affiliation | Architectural Association (Great Britain). School of Architecture Government Code and Cypher School (Great Britain) |
| Profession or occupation | Cryptographers Singers |
| Found in | The Future of the past. 1976. 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) |
| Associated language | eng |
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