In Memoriam, April 2016

Lord Briggs of Lewes (Asa Briggs), the historian of the Victorian era and culture, educator and Bletchley Park code-breaker, died on 15 March, aged 94. Briggs was educated at Keighley Boys’ Grammar School and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where he took his BA in 1941 and a BSc the same year from the University of London. He was a member of the Intelligence Corps working on code breaking at Bletchley Park from 1942 to the end of the war. He was one of the original founders in 1969 of th