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{{Infobox scientist
{{Infobox scientist
| name = Sir Dermot Turing
| name = Sir Dermot Turing
| honorific_suffix = 12th Baronet
| honorific_suffix = {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|Bt}}
| image = Dermot Turing.jpg
| image = Dermot Turing.jpg
| caption = Dermot Turing in 2019
| caption = Sir Dermot Turing in 2019
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1961|2|26|df=yes}}<ref name=whoswho>{{Who's Who | author=Anon| surname = Turing | othernames = Sir John Dermot | id = U38181 | year = 2017 | doi =10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U38181 | edition = online [[Oxford University Press]]|location=Oxford}}</ref>
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1961|2|26|df=yes}}<ref name=whoswho>{{Who's Who | author=Anon| title=Turing, Sir John Dermot | id = U38181 | year = 2017 | doi =10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U38181 | edition = online [[Oxford University Press]]|location=Oxford}}</ref>
| education = [[Sherborne School]]
| education = [[Sherborne School]]
| alma_mater = [[University of Cambridge]] (BA)<br />[[University of Oxford]] (DPhil)
| alma_mater = [[University of Cambridge]] (BA)<br />[[University of Oxford]] (DPhil)
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==Education==
==Education==
Turing was educated at [[Sherborne School]] and [[King's College, Cambridge]]. He then undertook a [[DPhil]] degree in [[genetics]] of the [[Drosophila melanogaster|fruit fly]] as a postgraduate student of [[New College, Oxford]].<ref name=dphil>{{cite thesis|degree=DPhil|publisher=University of Oxford|url=http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/permalink/f/89vilt/oxfaleph016147273|doi=|title=Aspects of the regulation of larval serum protein synthesis in Drosophila|first= John Dermot|last=Turing|date=1985|id={{EThOS|uk.bl.ethos.371588}}|website=ox.ac.uk|oclc=499771523}}</ref><ref name="RobertsTuring1991">{{cite journal|last1=Roberts|first1=David B.|last2=Turing|first2=J.Dermot|last3=Loughlin|first3=Susan A.R.|title=The advantages that accrue to Drosophila melanogaster possessing larval serum protein 1|journal=Journal of Insect Physiology|volume=37|issue=5|year=1991|pages=391–400|issn=0022-1910|doi=10.1016/0022-1910(91)90090-M}}</ref>
Turing was educated at [[Sherborne School]] and [[King's College, Cambridge]]. He then undertook a [[DPhil]] degree in the genetics of the [[Drosophila melanogaster|fruit fly]] as a postgraduate student of [[New College, Oxford]].<ref name=dphil>{{cite thesis|degree=DPhil|publisher=University of Oxford|url=http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/permalink/f/89vilt/oxfaleph016147273|doi=|title=Aspects of the regulation of larval serum protein synthesis in Drosophila|first= John Dermot|last=Turing|date=1985|id={{EThOS|uk.bl.ethos.371588}}|website=ox.ac.uk|oclc=499771523}}</ref><ref name="RobertsTuring1991">{{cite journal|last1=Roberts|first1=David B.|last2=Turing|first2=J.Dermot|last3=Loughlin|first3=Susan A.R.|title=The advantages that accrue to Drosophila melanogaster possessing larval serum protein 1|journal=Journal of Insect Physiology|volume=37|issue=5|year=1991|pages=391–400|issn=0022-1910|doi=10.1016/0022-1910(91)90090-M}}</ref>

==Career==
==Career==
After his DPhil, Turing moved into the legal profession<ref name=whoswho/><ref name="bletchley-park">{{cite web | url=https://bletchleypark.org.uk/about-us/bletchley-park-trustees/sir-john-dermot-turing | title=About Us – Sir John Dermot Turing | publisher=[[Bletchley Park]] | location=UK | accessdate=22 January 2018 | archive-date=18 October 2017 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171018191443/https://bletchleypark.org.uk/about-us/bletchley-park-trustees/sir-john-dermot-turing | url-status=dead }}</ref> initially as an [[HM Treasury]] solicitor. He then worked at the international law firm [[Clifford Chance]], where he was a partner until 2014 and latterly a consultant.<ref name="clifforf-chance">{{cite web | url=https://www.cliffordchance.com/people_and_places/people/lawyers/gb/dermot_turing.html | title=Dermot Turing – Consultant to Clifford Chance | work=People & Places | publisher=[[Clifford Chance]] | location=London, UK | accessdate=22 January 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171113223034/https://www.cliffordchance.com/people_and_places/people/lawyers/gb/dermot_turing.html | archive-date=13 November 2017 | url-status=dead }}</ref> He specialized in the [[financial sector]], especially with respect to failed [[bank]]s, [[Financial regulation|regulation]], and [[risk management]].
After his DPhil, Turing moved into the legal profession<ref name=whoswho/><ref name="bletchley-park">{{cite web | url=https://bletchleypark.org.uk/about-us/bletchley-park-trustees/sir-john-dermot-turing | title=About Us – Sir John Dermot Turing | publisher=Bletchley Park | location=UK | accessdate=22 January 2018 | archive-date=18 October 2017 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171018191443/https://bletchleypark.org.uk/about-us/bletchley-park-trustees/sir-john-dermot-turing | url-status=dead }}</ref> initially as an [[HM Treasury]] solicitor. He then worked at the international law firm Clifford Chance, where he was a partner until 2014 and latterly a consultant.<ref name="clifforf-chance">{{cite web | url=https://www.cliffordchance.com/people_and_places/people/lawyers/gb/dermot_turing.html | title=Dermot Turing – Consultant to Clifford Chance | work=People & Places | publisher=Clifford Chance | location=London, UK | accessdate=22 January 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171113223034/https://www.cliffordchance.com/people_and_places/people/lawyers/gb/dermot_turing.html | archive-date=13 November 2017 | url-status=dead }}</ref> He specialized in the financial sector, especially with respect to failed banks, [[Financial regulation|regulation]], and [[risk management]].


In 2012, the centenary year of his uncle [[Alan Turing]]'s birth, Dermot Turing became a trustee of [[Bletchley Park]], where Alan Turing worked as a [[Cryptanalysis|cryptologist]] during [[World War II]].<ref name="bletchley-park" /> In 2015 he wrote a book on [[Alan Turing]], ''[[Prof: Alan Turing Decoded]]'',<ref>{{cite book| last=Turing | first=Dermot | year=2015 | title=Prof: Alan Turing Decoded | publisher=[[The History Press]] | isbn=978-1841656434 }}</ref> and in 2017 he contributed a chapter to ''[[The Turing Guide]]''.<ref>{{cite book| last=Turing | first=Dermot | year=2017 | chapter=Chapter 2 – The man with the terrible trousers | editor-last1=Copeland | editor-first1=Jack |editor-link1=Jack Copeland |display-editors=etal| title=[[The Turing Guide]] | pages=19–29 }}</ref> He is a member of the European Post-Trade Forum and a trustee of the [[Turing Trust]]. His interests also include [[cryptanalysis]] and [[naval history]].<ref name="copeland17" />
In 2012, the centenary year of his uncle [[Alan Turing]]'s birth, Dermot Turing became a trustee of [[Bletchley Park]], where Alan Turing worked as a [[Cryptanalysis|cryptologist]] during [[World War II]].<ref name="bletchley-park" /> In 2015, he wrote a book on Alan Turing, ''[[Prof: Alan Turing Decoded]]'',<ref>{{cite book| last=Turing | first=Dermot | year=2015 | title=Prof: Alan Turing Decoded | publisher=[[The History Press]] | isbn=978-1841656434 }}</ref> and in 2017 he contributed a chapter to ''[[The Turing Guide]]''.<ref>{{cite book| last=Turing | first=Dermot | year=2017 | chapter=Chapter 2 – The man with the terrible trousers | editor-last1=Copeland | editor-first1=Jack |editor-link1=Jack Copeland |display-editors=etal| title=The Turing Guide | pages=19–29 }}</ref> He is a member of the European Post-Trade Forum and a trustee of the [[Turing Trust]]. His interests also include [[cryptanalysis]] and [[naval history]].<ref name="copeland17" />


Dermot Turing has commented on the accuracy of the 2014 film ''[[The Imitation Game]]'', a dramatization of [[Alan Turing]]'s life.<ref name="the-times">{{cite news| url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/how-accurate-is-the-imitation-game-sir-john-dermot-turing-reveals-all-lnxkh5xbb6g | first=Alex | last=O’Connell | title=How accurate is The Imitation Game? Sir John Dermot Turing reveals all | newspaper=[[The Times]] | location=UK | date=14 November 2014 | accessdate=22 January 2018 }}</ref><ref name="evening-standard">{{cite news| url=https://www.standard.co.uk/comment/comment/sir-john-dermot-turing-the-imitation-game-tells-the-full-story-of-my-codebreaking-uncle-10033536.html | first=Sir John Dermot | last=Turing | title=Sir John Dermot Turing: The Imitation Game tells the full story of my codebreaking uncle | newspaper=[[Evening Standard]] | location=UK | date=9 February 2015 | accessdate=22 January 2018 }}</ref><ref name="getsurrey">{{cite web| url=http://www.getsurrey.co.uk/whats-on/arts-culture-news/alan-turings-nephew-out-dispel-10283017 | first=Andre | last=Langlois | title=Alan Turing's nephew – out to dispel some myths | website=getSURREY | location=UK | date=19 October 2015 | accessdate=22 January 2018 }}</ref> In 2018 he published ''[[X, Y & Z: The Real Story of How Enigma Was Broken]]''.<ref>[https://dermotturing.com/my-recent-books/x-y-z-the-real-story-of-how-enigma-was-broken/ Dermot Turing, ''X, Y & Z: The Real Story of How Enigma Was Broken'']</ref>
Dermot Turing has commented on the accuracy of the 2014 film ''[[The Imitation Game]]'', a dramatization of Alan Turing's life.<ref name="the-times">{{cite news| url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/how-accurate-is-the-imitation-game-sir-john-dermot-turing-reveals-all-lnxkh5xbb6g | first=Alex | last=O’Connell | title=How accurate is The Imitation Game? Sir John Dermot Turing reveals all | newspaper=[[The Times]] | location=UK | date=14 November 2014 | accessdate=22 January 2018 }}</ref><ref name="evening-standard">{{cite news| url=https://www.standard.co.uk/comment/comment/sir-john-dermot-turing-the-imitation-game-tells-the-full-story-of-my-codebreaking-uncle-10033536.html | first=Sir John Dermot | last=Turing | title=Sir John Dermot Turing: The Imitation Game tells the full story of my codebreaking uncle | newspaper=[[Evening Standard]] | location=UK | date=9 February 2015 | accessdate=22 January 2018 }}</ref><ref name="getsurrey">{{cite web| url=http://www.getsurrey.co.uk/whats-on/arts-culture-news/alan-turings-nephew-out-dispel-10283017 | first=Andre | last=Langlois | title=Alan Turing's nephew – out to dispel some myths | website=getSURREY | location=UK | date=19 October 2015 | accessdate=22 January 2018 }}</ref> In 2018 he published ''[[X, Y & Z: The Real Story of How Enigma Was Broken]]''.<ref>[https://dermotturing.com/my-recent-books/x-y-z-the-real-story-of-how-enigma-was-broken/ Dermot Turing, ''X, Y & Z: The Real Story of How Enigma Was Broken'']</ref>


===Awards and honours===
===Awards and Honours===
In 2020, he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the [[Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland]] for highlighting the role of the [[Poles|Polish]] in breaking the Enigma code.<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=2020-07-05|title=Sir Dermot Turing awarded Polish state decoration for highlighting the role of Poles in breaking the Enigma code|url=https://www.gov.pl/web/unitedkingdom/sir-dermot-turing-awarded-polish-state-decoration-for-highlighting-the-role-of-poles-in-breaking-the-enigma-code|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210115091320/https://www.gov.pl/web/unitedkingdom/sir-dermot-turing-awarded-polish-state-decoration-for-highlighting-the-role-of-poles-in-breaking-the-enigma-code |archive-date=15 January 2021 |access-date=2020-08-07|website=gov.pl}}</ref> He is a visiting [[fellow]] at [[Kellogg College, Oxford]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.kellogg.ox.ac.uk/our-people/sir-dermot-turing/|title = Sir Dermot Turing}}</ref>
In 2020, he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the [[Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland]] for highlighting the role of the [[Polish people|Polish]] in breaking the Enigma Code.<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=2020-07-05|title=Sir Dermot Turing awarded Polish state decoration for highlighting the role of Poles in breaking the Enigma Code|url=https://www.gov.pl/web/unitedkingdom/sir-dermot-turing-awarded-polish-state-decoration-for-highlighting-the-role-of-poles-in-breaking-the-enigma-code|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210115091320/https://www.gov.pl/web/unitedkingdom/sir-dermot-turing-awarded-polish-state-decoration-for-highlighting-the-role-of-poles-in-breaking-the-enigma-code |archive-date=15 January 2021 |access-date=2020-08-07|website=gov.pl}}</ref> He is a visiting [[fellow]] at [[Kellogg College, Oxford]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.kellogg.ox.ac.uk/our-people/sir-dermot-turing/|title = Sir Dermot Turing}}</ref>


==Personal life==
==Family Tree==
Turing is the nephew of [[Alan Turing]]<ref name="copeland17">{{cite book| authorlink=Jack Copeland | last1=Copeland | first1=Jack | authorlink2=Jonathan Bowen | last2=Bowen | first2=Jonathan | last3=Sprevak | first3=Mark | authorlink4=Robin Wilson (mathematician) | last4=Wilson | first4=Robin |display-authors=et al | title=[[The Turing Guide]] | publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] | year=2017 | isbn=978-0198747833 | pages=479 | chapter=Notes on Contributors }}</ref><ref name="lboro">{{cite web| url=http://blog.lboro.ac.uk/sbe/2016/10/05/an-interview-with-dermot-turing-alan-turings-nephew/ | title=An interview with Dermot Turing: Alan Turing's nephew | publisher=[[Loughborough University]] | location=UK | date=5 October 2016 | accessdate=22 January 2018 }}</ref> and the 12th [[Baronet]] in the [[Turing baronetcy]].<ref name=whoswho/> He is the son of John Ferrier Turing and Beryl Mary Ada Turing née Hann. In 1986, he married Nicola Jane Simmonds, daughter of Malcolm Douglas Simmonds. In 1987, he succeeded his third cousin as the 12th Turing Baronet. He has two sons: John Malcolm Ferrier, his [[heir apparent]] (born 1988) and James Robert Edward (born 1991)<ref name=whoswho/>
Turing is the nephew of Alan Turing<ref name="copeland17">{{cite book| authorlink=Jack Copeland | last1=Copeland | first1=Jack | authorlink2=Jonathan Bowen | last2=Bowen | first2=Jonathan | last3=Sprevak | first3=Mark | authorlink4=Robin Wilson (mathematician) | last4=Wilson | first4=Robin |display-authors=et al | title=The Turing Guide | publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] | year=2017 | isbn=978-0198747833 | pages=479 | chapter=Notes on Contributors }}</ref><ref name="lboro">{{cite web| url=http://blog.lboro.ac.uk/sbe/2016/10/05/an-interview-with-dermot-turing-alan-turings-nephew/ | title=An interview with Dermot Turing: Alan Turing's nephew | publisher=[[Loughborough University]] | location=UK | date=5 October 2016 | accessdate=22 January 2018 }}</ref> and the 12th [[Baronet]] in the [[Turing baronetcy]].<ref name=whoswho/> He is the son of John Ferrier Turing and Beryl Mary Ada Turing née Hann. In 1986, he married Nicola Jane Simmonds, daughter of Malcolm Douglas Simmonds. In 1987, he succeeded his third cousin as the 12th Turing Baronet. He has two sons: John Malcolm Ferrier, his [[heir apparent]] (born 1988) and James Robert Edward (born 1991)<ref name=whoswho/>


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Sir Dermot Turing
Bt
Sir Dermot Turing in 2019
Born (1961-02-26) 26 February 1961 (age 63)[2]
EducationSherborne School
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge (BA)
University of Oxford (DPhil)
Known forProf: Alan Turing Decoded
X, Y & Z: The Real Story of How Enigma Was Broken
Spouse
Nicola Jane Simmonds
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(m. 1986)​
AwardsOrder of Merit of the Republic of Poland (2020)
Scientific career
InstitutionsHM Treasury
Clifford Chance
Bletchley Park
The Turing Trust
ThesisAspects of the regulation of larval serum protein synthesis in Drosophila (1985)
Doctoral advisorDavid B. Roberts[1]
Websitedermotturing.com

Sir John Dermot Turing, 12th Baronet (born 26 February 1961)[2] is a British solicitor and author.[3][4][5]

Education

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Turing was educated at Sherborne School and King's College, Cambridge. He then undertook a DPhil degree in the genetics of the fruit fly as a postgraduate student of New College, Oxford.[1][6]

Career

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After his DPhil, Turing moved into the legal profession[2][7] initially as an HM Treasury solicitor. He then worked at the international law firm Clifford Chance, where he was a partner until 2014 and latterly a consultant.[8] He specialized in the financial sector, especially with respect to failed banks, regulation, and risk management.

In 2012, the centenary year of his uncle Alan Turing's birth, Dermot Turing became a trustee of Bletchley Park, where Alan Turing worked as a cryptologist during World War II.[7] In 2015, he wrote a book on Alan Turing, Prof: Alan Turing Decoded,[9] and in 2017 he contributed a chapter to The Turing Guide.[10] He is a member of the European Post-Trade Forum and a trustee of the Turing Trust. His interests also include cryptanalysis and naval history.[11]

Dermot Turing has commented on the accuracy of the 2014 film The Imitation Game, a dramatization of Alan Turing's life.[12][13][14] In 2018 he published X, Y & Z: The Real Story of How Enigma Was Broken.[15]

Awards and Honours

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In 2020, he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland for highlighting the role of the Polish in breaking the Enigma Code.[16] He is a visiting fellow at Kellogg College, Oxford.[17]

Family Tree

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Turing is the nephew of Alan Turing[11][18] and the 12th Baronet in the Turing baronetcy.[2] He is the son of John Ferrier Turing and Beryl Mary Ada Turing née Hann. In 1986, he married Nicola Jane Simmonds, daughter of Malcolm Douglas Simmonds. In 1987, he succeeded his third cousin as the 12th Turing Baronet. He has two sons: John Malcolm Ferrier, his heir apparent (born 1988) and James Robert Edward (born 1991)[2]

Coat of arms of Dermot Turing
Crest
A hand holding a helmet Proper.
Escutcheon
Argent on a bend Sable three boar’s heads Or.
Supporters
Two stags Proper.
Motto
Audentes Fortuna Juvat [19]

References

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  1. ^ a b Turing, John Dermot (1985). Aspects of the regulation of larval serum protein synthesis in Drosophila. ox.ac.uk (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford. OCLC 499771523. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.371588.
  2. ^ a b c d e Anon (2017). "Turing, Sir John Dermot". Who's Who (online Oxford University Press ed.). Oxford: A & C Black. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U38181. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. ^ Sir John Dermot Turing talk at The Open University on YouTube
  4. ^ Dermot Turing: "Prof: Alan Turing Decoded" talk at Google on YouTube
  5. ^ Black, Sue (2021). "Alan Turing and Computable Numbers: 100 Moments That Rocked Computer Science". apple.com.
  6. ^ Roberts, David B.; Turing, J.Dermot; Loughlin, Susan A.R. (1991). "The advantages that accrue to Drosophila melanogaster possessing larval serum protein 1". Journal of Insect Physiology. 37 (5): 391–400. doi:10.1016/0022-1910(91)90090-M. ISSN 0022-1910.
  7. ^ a b "About Us – Sir John Dermot Turing". UK: Bletchley Park. Archived from the original on 18 October 2017. Retrieved 22 January 2018.
  8. ^ "Dermot Turing – Consultant to Clifford Chance". People & Places. London, UK: Clifford Chance. Archived from the original on 13 November 2017. Retrieved 22 January 2018.
  9. ^ Turing, Dermot (2015). Prof: Alan Turing Decoded. The History Press. ISBN 978-1841656434.
  10. ^ Turing, Dermot (2017). "Chapter 2 – The man with the terrible trousers". In Copeland, Jack; et al. (eds.). The Turing Guide. pp. 19–29.
  11. ^ a b Copeland, Jack; Bowen, Jonathan; Sprevak, Mark; Wilson, Robin; et al. (2017). "Notes on Contributors". The Turing Guide. Oxford University Press. p. 479. ISBN 978-0198747833.
  12. ^ O’Connell, Alex (14 November 2014). "How accurate is The Imitation Game? Sir John Dermot Turing reveals all". The Times. UK. Retrieved 22 January 2018.
  13. ^ Turing, Sir John Dermot (9 February 2015). "Sir John Dermot Turing: The Imitation Game tells the full story of my codebreaking uncle". Evening Standard. UK. Retrieved 22 January 2018.
  14. ^ Langlois, Andre (19 October 2015). "Alan Turing's nephew – out to dispel some myths". getSURREY. UK. Retrieved 22 January 2018.
  15. ^ Dermot Turing, X, Y & Z: The Real Story of How Enigma Was Broken
  16. ^ "Sir Dermot Turing awarded Polish state decoration for highlighting the role of Poles in breaking the Enigma Code". gov.pl. 5 July 2020. Archived from the original on 15 January 2021. Retrieved 7 August 2020.
  17. ^ "Sir Dermot Turing".
  18. ^ "An interview with Dermot Turing: Alan Turing's nephew". UK: Loughborough University. 5 October 2016. Retrieved 22 January 2018.
  19. ^ Debrett's peerage, baronetage, knightage, and companionage. 1903.
Baronetage of Nova Scotia
Preceded by
John Leslie Turing
 Baronet
(of Foveran)
1987–present 		Incumbent
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