14 Facts About Margaret Rock

Margaret Alice Rock was one of the women mathematicians who worked in Bletchley Park during World War II.

Margaret Rock's father served in the Royal Navy as a surgeon between 1894 and 1896 while her mother took care of her and her brother.

Margaret Rock attended Portsmouth High School, an all female private boarding school.

Margaret Rock's father died when the armed merchant cruiser HMS Laurentic sank off the coast of Ireland having struck two mines laid by a German U-boat.

Margaret Rock was encouraged by the letters her late father wrote to her, telling her to keep up with her studies and to be successful in the future.

Margaret Rock passed the London General School Exam in June 1919.

Margaret Rock went to Bedford College, University of London, to earn a Bachelors of Arts Degree in 1921.

Margaret Rock predicted the economic market and how different businesses and companies would respond to the market.

Margaret Rock quit her old job, wanting a career in a time when the woman's role was primarily to be the wife and stay-at-home mother.

Margaret Rock was then recruited for a new job at Bletchley Park on 15 April 1940.

Margaret Rock worked for Admiral Sir Hugh Sinclair, who was the head of the Government Code and Cypher School and Secret Intelligence Service.

Margaret Rock trained and worked alongside mathematicians and professors to decode enemy messages encrypted with the Enigma machine.

Margaret Rock went to work for Alfred Dilwyn Knox, where she worked closely with Mavis Lever on the same projects.

Margaret Rock worked governmental jobs, such as at the Government Communications Headquarters, until she retired in 1963.