Your guide to Alan Turing: the man, the enigma

How much do you know about Alan Turing, who was portrayed by Benedict Cumberbatch in the 2014 film The Imitation Game? October 1931 Turing takes up a mathematics scholarship at King's College Cambridge, earning a first-class degree. March 1940 The first Bombe machine, designed by Turing, arrives at Bletchley. The coroner's verdict is that he had taken his own life The founding father of computing played a vital role in breaking German codes during the Second World War. In September 1939, just as the Second World War was declared, a young man arrived to stay at the Crown Inn in the hamlet of Shenley Brook End, Buckinghamshire.