Ellen Elizabeth Reed

Ellen Elizabeth Reed (1916 – 30 August 2020) was a code-breaker at Bletchley Park during the Second World War.

Biography Ellen Elizabeth Langstaff was born in Canada but was brought up in the United Kingdom. She got a degree in French and German from Cambridge University.

Reed did not know about Alan Turing until Fred Winterbotham's book about Bletchley Park came out in 1975.

She married Nigel Reed of New Zealand in 1945, who became Chief Justice of Northern Nigeria and was knighted. The couple lived in Nigeria.

Reed and her husband lived partly in the UK and partly in New Zealand from 1975 till 1995 and lived full-time in Northland after 1995. Sir Nigel Reed died in 1997.

She had three children. Reed died in Paihia on 30 August 2020. She was 104 years old.