William Montgomery (cryptographer)

Rev. William Montgomery (1871–1930) was a Presbyterian minister and a British codebreaker who worked in Room 40 during World War I.

William Montgomery
Born	1871 Liverpool[1]
Died	7 October 1930 (aged 59)[2] Chelsea[3]
Nationality	British
Education	University of London St John's College, Cambridge[1][2]
Known for	Zimmermann Telegram
Spouse	Marta Corbett[1]
Children	Elizabeth Montgomery[1]

Montgomery and Nigel de Grey deciphered the Zimmermann Telegram, which helped bring the U.S. into World War I. At this time (1917), Montgomery was 45.

He was an authority on Augustine of Hippo and a translator of theological works from German. No work, it was said, had ever been so idiomatically and yet so faithfully rendered as his translation of Albert Schweitzer's Quest of the Historical Jesus, published in 1914.^[4]