Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Joan_Bright_Astley> ?p ?o }
Showing triples 1 to 91 of
91
with 100 triples per page.
- Joan_Bright_Astley abstract "Joan Bright Astley, OBE (27 September 1910 – 24 December 2008), born Penelope Joan McKerrow Bright, organized the Special Information Centre (SIC) for Winston Churchill during World War II. As a young woman, she dated Ian Fleming and is believed to be one of the three or four women whose attributes were used by him for the character of Miss Moneypenny.Joan Bright Astley was born in Monte Caseros, Corrientes, Argentina. Her father was an English accountant; her mother a Scottish governess. Described as a difficult teenager, she attended a number of schools, learning shorthand and typing and working as a secretary at the British legation in Mexico. In the 1930s, she was offered a job, which she declined, in Nazi Germany teaching English to the family of Rudolf Hess.In 1939, she was told by a friend that she might have a chance of work if she went to a certain London Underground station one day, wearing a pink carnation. She did so, and was guided to an office in Whitehall where she was met by a colonel, who had her sign the Official Secrets Act and warned her not to be seen by a certain person standing outside the building when she left. She was hired by D/MI(R), a section of the War Office concerned, among other things, with disrupting the flow of Romanian oil to the Third Reich. Later in the war, she was employed by the Joint Planning Committee and given the job of running the Secret Intelligence Centre, which was in fact a single room in the Cabinet War Rooms. She had custody of secret papers and reports, and, on instructions, would show a given report to a senior officer and allow him to read it in her office, under top secret conditions. By all accounts, she made the officers welcome with her informal manner. Subsequently, she became personal assistant to General Sir Hastings Ismay, a close associate of Winston Churchill's.During the war, she dated Ian Fleming, and said of him, \"I thought he was awfully attractive and fun, but elusive. I think he was a ruthless man – he would drop somebody if he didn't want them any more. That would be it.\" She added, \"No torrid love affair.\"She served as an administrative officer at several wartime and postwar conferences. She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1946 New Year Honours, when she was described as \"Principal, Offices of the Cabinet and Minister of Defence.\" She married Colonel Philip Astley (first husband of Madeleine Carroll, whom he had divorced in 1940) in 1949. Colonel Astley died in 1958. In 1971, Joan Astley wrote of her wartime life in a memoir, The Inner Circle: a View of War at the Top, and in 1993 co-authored a book on Sir Colin Gubbins. She died on Christmas Eve 2008.According to Samantha Weinberg, author of The Moneypenny Diaries, which she published under the name Kate Westbrook, Astley is one of three or four women used by Fleming as the basis of Miss Moneypenny.".
- Joan_Bright_Astley birthDate "1910-09-27".
- Joan_Bright_Astley birthYear "1910".
- Joan_Bright_Astley deathDate "2008-12-24".
- Joan_Bright_Astley deathYear "2008".
- Joan_Bright_Astley wikiPageID "21317459".
- Joan_Bright_Astley wikiPageLength "4743".
- Joan_Bright_Astley wikiPageOutDegree "36".
- Joan_Bright_Astley wikiPageRevisionID "659636968".
- Joan_Bright_Astley wikiPageWikiLink 1946_New_Year_Honours.
- Joan_Bright_Astley wikiPageWikiLink Argentina.
- Joan_Bright_Astley wikiPageWikiLink Category:1910_births.
- Joan_Bright_Astley wikiPageWikiLink Category:2008_deaths.
- Joan_Bright_Astley wikiPageWikiLink Category:Argentine_people_of_English_descent.
- Joan_Bright_Astley wikiPageWikiLink Category:British_autobiographers.
- Joan_Bright_Astley wikiPageWikiLink Category:British_military_writers.
- Joan_Bright_Astley wikiPageWikiLink Category:Civil_servants_in_the_Cabinet_Office.
- Joan_Bright_Astley wikiPageWikiLink Category:Civil_servants_in_the_War_Office.
- Joan_Bright_Astley wikiPageWikiLink Category:James_Bond.
- Joan_Bright_Astley wikiPageWikiLink Category:Officers_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire.
- Joan_Bright_Astley wikiPageWikiLink Category:People_from_Corrientes_Province.
- Joan_Bright_Astley wikiPageWikiLink Category:Private_secretaries_in_the_British_Civil_Service.
- Joan_Bright_Astley wikiPageWikiLink Category:Women_memoirists.
- Joan_Bright_Astley wikiPageWikiLink Category:Women_military_writers.
- Joan_Bright_Astley wikiPageWikiLink Churchill_War_Rooms.
- Joan_Bright_Astley wikiPageWikiLink Colin_Gubbins.
- Joan_Bright_Astley wikiPageWikiLink Colonel_(United_Kingdom).
- Joan_Bright_Astley wikiPageWikiLink Hastings_Ismay,_1st_Baron_Ismay.
- Joan_Bright_Astley wikiPageWikiLink Ian_Fleming.
- Joan_Bright_Astley wikiPageWikiLink London_Underground.
- Joan_Bright_Astley wikiPageWikiLink Madeleine_Carroll.
- Joan_Bright_Astley wikiPageWikiLink Miss_Moneypenny.
- Joan_Bright_Astley wikiPageWikiLink Monte_Caseros,_Corrientes.
- Joan_Bright_Astley wikiPageWikiLink Nazi_Germany.
- Joan_Bright_Astley wikiPageWikiLink Official_Secrets_Act.
- Joan_Bright_Astley wikiPageWikiLink Order_of_the_British_Empire.
- Joan_Bright_Astley wikiPageWikiLink Rudolf_Hess.
- Joan_Bright_Astley wikiPageWikiLink Samantha_Weinberg.
- Joan_Bright_Astley wikiPageWikiLink The_Guardian.
- Joan_Bright_Astley wikiPageWikiLink The_Moneypenny_Diaries.
- Joan_Bright_Astley wikiPageWikiLink Winston_Churchill.
- Joan_Bright_Astley wikiPageWikiLink World_War_II.
- Joan_Bright_Astley wikiPageWikiLinkText "Joan Bright Astley".
- Joan_Bright_Astley dateOfBirth "1910-09-27".
- Joan_Bright_Astley dateOfDeath "2008-12-24".
- Joan_Bright_Astley name "Astley, Joan".
- Joan_Bright_Astley shortDescription "British civil servant".
- Joan_Bright_Astley wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Authority_control.
- Joan_Bright_Astley wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Cite_news.
- Joan_Bright_Astley wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Persondata.
- Joan_Bright_Astley wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Reflist.
- Joan_Bright_Astley description "British civil servant".
- Joan_Bright_Astley description "British civil servant".
- Joan_Bright_Astley subject Category:1910_births.
- Joan_Bright_Astley subject Category:2008_deaths.
- Joan_Bright_Astley subject Category:Argentine_people_of_English_descent.
- Joan_Bright_Astley subject Category:British_autobiographers.
- Joan_Bright_Astley subject Category:British_military_writers.
- Joan_Bright_Astley subject Category:Civil_servants_in_the_Cabinet_Office.
- Joan_Bright_Astley subject Category:Civil_servants_in_the_War_Office.
- Joan_Bright_Astley subject Category:James_Bond.
- Joan_Bright_Astley subject Category:Officers_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire.
- Joan_Bright_Astley subject Category:People_from_Corrientes_Province.
- Joan_Bright_Astley subject Category:Private_secretaries_in_the_British_Civil_Service.
- Joan_Bright_Astley subject Category:Women_memoirists.
- Joan_Bright_Astley subject Category:Women_military_writers.
- Joan_Bright_Astley type Agent.
- Joan_Bright_Astley type Person.
- Joan_Bright_Astley type Writer.
- Joan_Bright_Astley type Person.
- Joan_Bright_Astley type Character.
- Joan_Bright_Astley type Member.
- Joan_Bright_Astley type Secretary.
- Joan_Bright_Astley type Writer.
- Joan_Bright_Astley type Agent.
- Joan_Bright_Astley type NaturalPerson.
- Joan_Bright_Astley type Thing.
- Joan_Bright_Astley type Q215627.
- Joan_Bright_Astley type Q5.
- Joan_Bright_Astley type Person.
- Joan_Bright_Astley comment "Joan Bright Astley, OBE (27 September 1910 – 24 December 2008), born Penelope Joan McKerrow Bright, organized the Special Information Centre (SIC) for Winston Churchill during World War II. As a young woman, she dated Ian Fleming and is believed to be one of the three or four women whose attributes were used by him for the character of Miss Moneypenny.Joan Bright Astley was born in Monte Caseros, Corrientes, Argentina. Her father was an English accountant; her mother a Scottish governess.".
- Joan_Bright_Astley label "Joan Bright Astley".
- Joan_Bright_Astley sameAs Q6204890.
- Joan_Bright_Astley sameAs m.05f9y6r.
- Joan_Bright_Astley sameAs Q6204890.
- Joan_Bright_Astley wasDerivedFrom Joan_Bright_Astley?oldid=659636968.
- Joan_Bright_Astley givenName "Joan".
- Joan_Bright_Astley isPrimaryTopicOf Joan_Bright_Astley.
- Joan_Bright_Astley name "Astley, Joan".
- Joan_Bright_Astley name "Joan Astley".
- Joan_Bright_Astley surname "Astley".