Wilmslow - People from Wilmslow: Encyclopedia II - Wilmslow - People from Wilmslow
Alan Turing, the driving force behind the Colossus machine for cracking the German Enigma cypher, is perhaps Wilmslow's most notable resident. Turing committed suicide in his Wilmslow home in June 1954 by eating a cyanide-laced apple.
George Mallory, the mountaineer who died on Everest in 1924, came from nearby Mobberley. Terry Waite, the humanitarian, author and hostage negotiator, came from nearby Styal.
Wilmslow has featured in the novels of the writer Alan Garner, with the Black Lake (Lindow) apparently housing a witch. Gar ...
Wilmslow: Encyclopedia II - Wilmslow - People from Wilmslow
Wilmslow - People from Wilmslow
Alan Turing, the driving force behind the Colossus machine for cracking the German Enigma cypher, is perhaps Wilmslow's most notable resident. Turing committed suicide in his Wilmslow home in June 1954 by eating a cyanide-laced apple.
George Mallory, the mountaineer who died on Everest in 1924, came from nearby Mobberley. Terry Waite, the humanitarian, author and hostage negotiator, came from nearby Styal.
Wilmslow has featured in the novels of the writer Alan Garner, with the Black Lake (Lindow) apparently housing a witch. Garner is perhaps best known for his books The Owl Service and The Weirdstone of Brisingamen and The Moon of Gomrath which are set in nearby Alderley Edge.
The British indie rock band Doves met at Wilmslow High School in the 1980s.
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