Alan Turing, 1912 - 1954, code breaker, lived here from 1945 - 1947.
TW12, Hampton High Street, 78, Ivy House
Turing lived here while working at the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington, on the other side of Bushy Park.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Alan Turing - Hampton
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E. H. Shepard, 1879 – 1976, painter and illustrator lived here. English Heritage
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