Nigel de Grey, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Nigel de Grey

code breaker

Date of Birth: 27-Mar-1886

Date of Death: 25-May-1951

Profession: cryptanalyst

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Nigel de Grey (27 March 1886 – 25 May 1951) was a British codebreaker.
Son of the rector of Copdock, Suffolk, and grandson of the 5th Lord Walsingham, he was educated at Eton College and became fluent in French and German.
In 1907 he joined the publishing firm of William Heinemann.
As he was shy and physically small, a colleague labelled him 'the door mouse' (shouldn’ t that be Dormouse?).