Geoffrey Tandy

Geoffrey A. Tandy (1900-1969) was a British marine biologist and broadcaster.

Life

A friend of T. S. Eliot, he wrote a 'Broadcasting Chronicle' for The Criterion,[1] and was the first to broadcast Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats in 1937.[2][3] During the war he worked at Bletchley Park, allegedly invited there after the Ministry of Defense confused the word ‘cryptogamist’ with ‘cryptogramist’. At Bletchley his technical expertise allowed him to salvage a waterlogged codebook which helped crack the Enigma code.[4][5]

Genista McIntosh, Baroness McIntosh is Tandy's daughter by his second wife Maire McDermott.

Tandy’s papers are held at the Natural History Museum.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Todd Avery (2006). Radio Modernism: Literature, Ethics, and the BBC, 1922-1938. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. 139. ISBN 978-0-7546-5517-6.
  2. ↑ Valerie Eliot; John Haffenden, ed. (2012). The Letters of T.S. Eliot: Volume 3: 1926-28. Yale University Press. p. 18. ISBN 978-0-300-18889-9.
  3. ↑ Craig R. Whitney, 2 More T.S. Eliot Poems Found Amid Hundreds of His Letters, ‘’The New York Times’’, November 2, 1991.
  4. ↑ Richard Fortey, ‘’Dry Store Room No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum’’, 2008, p.168.
  5. ↑ Amy Freeborn, How a seaweed scientist helped win the war, ‘’NaturePlus’’, 26 March 2014.
  6. ↑ Tandy; Geoffrey A (1900-1969); Algologist

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