Frederick Whiley "Ted" Hilles (1900–1975) was Bodman Professor of English Literature at Yale University.
[3] Hilles was a fellow, and later Bodman Professor of English Literature, at Trumbull College, Yale University.
[5] During the Second World War, Hilles served in intelligence with the United States Army rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel.
He was one of many American officers, mostly of an academic background, posted to England to work at the code-breaking centre at Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire.
He lived at The Hunt Hotel at Linslade near Leighton Buzzard and drove daily to Bletchley and made frequent trips to Cambridge and London.