Bill Haydon [SEP] creator
Bill Haydon
Bill Haydon is a fictional character created by John le Carré who features in le Carré's 1974 novel "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy". He is a senior officer in the British Secret Intelligence Service who serves as a Soviet mole. The novel follows aging spymaster George Smiley's endeavours to uncover the mole. The character is partly modelled after the real-life double agent Kim Philby, part of the notorious Cambridge Five spy ring in Britain, who defected to the USSR in 1963.
Biography.
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A. W. Haydon
Arthur William Haydon (April 25, 1906 – January 11, 1982; known as A. W. or Bill Haydon) was an American inventor known for his work in the field of microminiature electrical timing and governing devices for industrial and military use, some of which were to be used in early computing devices.
Haydon secured and was granted 82 U.S. patents from 1931 to 1984, many of which still have wide industrial use today.
In 1933, Haydon set up his own development shop under the name