Arthur Wynn

Who was Arthur Wynn?

Arthur Henry Ashford Wynn, was a British civil servant, social researcher, and recruiter of Soviet spies.

Recruited by Edith Tudor-Hart in 1936, Wynn was the well known Soviet spy "Agent Scott" of the KGB. Wynn created the less prominent Oxford spy ring, the University of Oxford counterpart to the infamous Cambridge Five.

Wynn was the son of a professor of medicine. Educated at Oundle School, he played rugby union. Wynn read natural sciences and mathematics at Trinity College, University of Cambridge.

Wynn was in Germany when Adolf Hitler became Chancellor. He married German communist Lieschen Ostrowski, to enable her to escape Nazi Germany.

He returned to England, dissolved his marriage, and moved to Oxford for further study. While at the University of Oxford he joined the Clarendon Club, and met and married Peggy Moxon, a student and a fellow member of the Communist Party of Great Britain. They married in 1938, and had four children. In the following year, Arthur and Peggy Wynn wrote a study of the financial connections of the Conservative establishment which they published as "Tory M.P." It was published in the USA as "England's Money Lords"; the Winns published under the pseudonym 'Simon Haxey'.