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Neil Leslie Webster
Neil Leslie Webster (7 November 1906 – 1990) was an army Major who worked in intelligence in World War II. He was a key figure in radio intelligence and cryptography who worked in the Fusion Room at Bletchley Park and was closely involved in the hunt for "cribs" for the Enigma machine. Before the war he worked as a literary agent and after it as a civil servant for the Central Office of Information.
==Early life==
Neil Webster was born on 7 November 1906 in his grandparents' home, in Merionethshire, Wales. The Websters were a Scottish family, many of whom had served in the Indian Civil Service. His grandma on his mother's side was Flora Annie Steel, née Webster, the well-known and influential Victorian novelist.〔Steel,Flora Annie ''The Garden of Fidelity – The Autobiography of Flora Annie Steel 1847 – 1929'' Macmillan & Co 1930 p260〕 She married Henry 'Hal' Steel and went with him straight to India, almost as a child bride. Over the years she had taken up women's rights there, started writing about India, and become justly famous – for her writings and her outspoken views. She was a big influence on Neil's life and his independence of thought.
Neil's mother Mabel Steel married her first cousin John 'Jack' Webster who also worked all his life in the Indian Civil Service being awarded the Order of the Star of India.〔''India Office List'' 1930 Record of Services p894〕 Neil was raised by his grandparents as his parents were in India. In 1920 he won a scholarship to Cheltenham College where he studied Latin, Greek, French and German.〔Steel,Flora Annie ''The Garden of Fidelity – The Autobiography of Flora Annie Steel 1847 – 1929'' Macmillan & Co 1930 p284〕 He also proved to be exceptionally quick at mathematics, having a natural aptitude for numbers, logic and abstract reasoning. He won a place at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he studied Logic with Greats before moving to Cambridge, to the (identically named) Corpus Christi College there, to do a post-graduate course in Industrial Psychology.〔Corpus Christi Biographical Register 1880 – 1974 p303〕 He later went to North America where he spent some time travelling around and became involved in the literary scene in New York before returning to England to work as a literary agent.
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