For the British-born American physician, see Mabel Evelyn Elliott.
Mabel Elliott
Born
Mabel Beatrice Elliott
(1885-08-09)9 August 1885
Walthamstow, Essex, United Kingdom (now London)
Died
1 January 1944(1944-01-01) (aged 58)
Nationality
British
Other names
Maud Phillips
Mabel Beatrice ElliottMBE (9 August 1885 – 9 January 1944), who used the pseudonym Maud Phillips,[1] was a British censor who uncovered a German spy during the First World War.[2]
Born in Walthamstow, Essex (now London), she was educated in London and then the Netherlands and Belgium, she became proficient in a French, Dutch and German.[2]
Her real identity was hidden for many years as she testified under the assumed name Maud Phillips. In 2011, the Royal Society of Chemistry discovered details of her activities during the First World War.[3] During the War, she worked in the newly formed department of Postal Censorship in the War Office;[2] there she became suspicious that a seemingly standard business letter contained a hidden message written in invisible ink. This message was soon discovered to contain a message written by a German spy, Anton Küpferle.[2]
An appeal for more information about Elliott uncovered a surviving family member, her great-niece Rosalind Noble.[4]
Mabel Elliott died on 9 January 1944.[2]
^Collins, Nick (8 November 2011). "Secret role of war hero unearthed in Chemistry archives". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 17 June 2017.
^ abcdeMitchell, C Ainsworth (February 1944). "Obituary: Mabel Beatrice Elliott". The Analyst. 69 (815): 33. doi:10.1039/an9446900033.
^Coughlan, Sean. "'Unknown heroine' who caught invisible ink spy". BBC. Retrieved 24 February 2015.
^Coughlan, Sean. "WWI mystery spycatcher family discovered". BBC. Retrieved 24 February 2015.
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