Just a fantastic thread about WW2 code breaker and national treasure Baroness Trumpington who has died aged 96
Lady Trumpington, the long-serving peer who was a member of the Bletchley Park codebreaking team, has died aged 96.
Countless tributes are being paid today and this might be our favourite, an appreciation thread by Alan White about one of the country’s great national treasures.
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This is a Baroness Trumpington appreciation thread. pic.twitter.com/CNrumt6t4m
— Alan White (@aljwhite) November 27, 2018
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In the 1940s, she cracked German codes at Bletchley pic.twitter.com/QeVF42uUH9
— Alan White (@aljwhite) November 27, 2018
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She was Have I Got News For You’s oldest ever guest, and was very funny pic.twitter.com/LGWovPtesv
— Alan White (@aljwhite) November 27, 2018
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She knew what was up (this was her on Boris Johnson) pic.twitter.com/xI4mSaVKO4
— Alan White (@aljwhite) November 27, 2018
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These were her thoughts on aging pic.twitter.com/BmjIpcSJ7Z
— Alan White (@aljwhite) November 27, 2018
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She dressed like this and was on a Channel 4 show called Fabulous Fashionistas pic.twitter.com/kFFTJTeSP7
— Alan White (@aljwhite) November 27, 2018
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She chose the Crown Jewels as her luxury item on Desert Island Discs… because she thought they’d increase her chances of being rescued.
— Alan White (@aljwhite) November 27, 2018
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“Is the noble Lord aware that, at the age of 80, there are very few pleasures left to me, but one of them is passive smoking?” pic.twitter.com/o2lpPlrcKT
— Alan White (@aljwhite) November 27, 2018
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This bit in a Guardian interview pic.twitter.com/AnO8V2b2IP
— Alan White (@aljwhite) November 27, 2018
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Her thoughts on Edwina Currie pic.twitter.com/tTwkuFChTG
— Alan White (@aljwhite) November 27, 2018
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The extremely sagacious life advice pic.twitter.com/saHlEcB9N1
— Alan White (@aljwhite) November 27, 2018
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RIP Jean Barker, 96 years young
— Alan White (@aljwhite) November 27, 2018
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oh man I forgot about her talking about working for David Lloyd George as a land girl pic.twitter.com/PdjAv68Hze
— Alan White (@aljwhite) November 27, 2018
And then, of course, there was the moment she did this.
And this, from her autobiography.
Sad news about Baroness Trumpington. Here again for your enjoyment is the opening paragraph of her autobiography: pic.twitter.com/tGWFue9Wat
— Stephen Graham (@PlopGazette) November 27, 2018
RIP Baroness Trumpington.
