article_snippet.sent: With Cournswood House's gabled, late-Victorian red-brick exterior and oak-panelled interior, Cournswood House's could almost be Bletchley Park, the English country house at the heart of the recent Oscar-nominated drama The Imitation Game, about the cracking of Germany's wartime Enigma code.
article_snippet.sent: The first was wartime Naval cryptographer and Enigma codebreaker Dillwyn Knox, who bought it in 1921 and lived there until his death in 1943.
article_snippet.sent: his funeral was attended by many from Bletchley Park, and a memorial stone to Knox can be found bordering the property.
article_snippet.sent: Codebreaker Dillwyn Knox, left, who bought Cournswood House's in 1921 and lived there until Codebreaker Dillwyn Knox death in 1943 and right, Sharon Constancon, who is related to the Leon family who once owned Bletchley Park .
article_snippet.sent: During the Second World War at Bletchley Park, Dillwyn Knox led the team that made the first breaks into the code Germany was using, and Dillwyn Knox encouraged Alan Turing –
article_snippet.sent: the subject of The Imitation Game – in Dillwyn Knox work there.
article_snippet.sent: Although Dillwyn Knox does not feature in the new movie, Dillwyn Knox was portrayed by actor Richard Johnson in the 1996 television film Breaking The Code, which starred Derek Jacobi as Turing and Prunella Scales as Dillwyn Knox wife Sara.
article_snippet.sent: Cracking mysteries seems to be something Dillwyn Knox enjoyed in Dillwyn Knox private life too, as novelist Agatha Christie was a good friend and often visited Cournswood. '
article_snippet.sent: In the library, still concealed behind one of the wall panels, is Knox's private safe.
highlights_snippet.sent: First was Naval cryptographer and Enigma codebreaker Dillwyn Knox .
  