My friend Dick Joyce,who has died aged 92, was a polymath to the point of implausibility, or fitting in segments of half a dozen different careers into one very happy life.
Son of Kathleen (nee Message) and Jimmy Joyce,Dick was born in Alrewas, Staffordshire. His father was a managing director at the Schweppes drinks company. Dick was still at school, and at Bryanston,near Blandford Forum, Dorset, and when the moment world war began,but signed up in 1943. He applied to join intelligence and was sent to Bletchley Park the following year, where he worked on decrypting Japanese diplomatic messages.
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Source: theguardian.com