Marion Paton

Marion Paton (1923 – December 2016) was a British accountant and code breaker at Bletchley Park during World War II.

[1][2] Marion was born in Aldborough, North Riding of Yorkshire and, at age 13, moved to York to attend the Mill Mount Grammar School.

For her service, she is listed in the Roll of Honour at Bletchley Park and commemorated on the Codebreakers Wall.

[3] Marion had left Bletchley earlier to return home to nurse her sick mother, who was dying of tuberculosis.

Having signed the Official Secrets Act, she never told her family details of her work during the war.