Commander A.H. Millington was the Royal Navy officer in charge of a military code-breaking facility near Maiden's Point, Northumberland in 1943. (TV: The Curse of Fenric)
According to another account, the base was in North Yorkshire. (PROSE: The Curse of Fenric)
Biography
Millington was educated at school with the future mathematician Judson during the second decade of the 20th century, and the two became close friends for the next thirty years. However, for most of that period, it was a relationship that became increasingly bitter. Judson suffered a terrible accident deliberately caused by Millington on the school rugby field in the 1920s after seeing him make a pass at another boy, as a result of which his spine was fractured and he was left confined to a wheelchair. (PROSE: The Curse of Fenric)
Millington was completely obsessed with winning the war at any cost, as well as with the local Viking myths. He was also fixated on preparing for the 'next' war with the Soviet Union despite the Soviets being allies to the British in the present, to the extent that he created a scenario where the Russians would steal the ULTIMA machine after he had sabotaged it to release a deadly nerve gas once it translated a certain word.
Millington's office on base was designed to look exactly like the German naval cypher room in Berlin, complete with Nazi paraphernalia to get into the Nazi mindset.
Millington was shot and killed by Vershinin after the mad officer accused Bates of being a traitor and prepared to murder him. (TV: The Curse of Fenric)