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born July 12, 1922, Wheathampstead, Hertfordshire, Eng.
died Sept. 6, 1956, near Hatfield, Hertfordshire
British architect and cryptographer.
At age 14 he heard a lecture on the continuing mystery of Linear B script (see Linear A and Linear B ) and resolved to decipher it. In 1952 he determined that Linear B was Greek in its oldest known form, dating from 0441; 14001200 BC. He collaborated with John Chadwick (192098) on Documents in Mycenaean Greek (1956), published a few weeks after his own death in an auto accident.