Sir Thomas Beaumont Hohler (15 March 1871 — 23 April 1946) was a British diplomat. He was born in

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, London, the sixth son of Henry Booth Hohler of Fawkham Manor near Gravesend and Henrietta Wilhelmina Lawes. His older brother was politician and barrister Sir Gerald Hohler. Hohler was educated at

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and Trinity College, Cambridge. Hohler entered the diplomatic service in 1894, and was appointed a Second Secretary in August 1901. During World War I, he was head of the British delegation to Mexico, in Mexico City, and was involved in the interception of the German Zimmermann Telegram that was used to promote the entry of the United States into the war. Although acting anonymously at the time, he later identified himself as the mysterious "Mr. H" responsible for intercepting the inflammatory telegram. In 1920, Hohler served as the High Commissioner of the British Legation in Budapest, Hungary. In Hungary, he made a controversial effort to convince the British Government to revise the terms of the

Trianon Treaty The Treaty of Trianon (french: Traité de Trianon, hu, Trianoni békeszerződés, it, Trattato del Trianon) was prepared at the Paris Peace Conference and was signed in the Grand Trianon château in Versailles on 4 June 1920. It formal ...

to better favor Hungary. Hohler later served as the head of the British Commercial delegation to

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, and as British Minister to Denmark 1928–1933. In 1942, he published ''Diplomatic Petrel''. Hohler in 1922 married Cynthia Elizabeth Violet Astell, daughter of William Harvey Astell and Lady Elizabeth Maria Vereker, and a descendant (through Vereker) of the

Schuyler family The Schuyler family ( /ˈskaɪlər/; Dutch pronunciation: xœylər was a prominent Dutch family in New York and New Jersey in the 18th and 19th centuries, whose descendants played a critical role in the formation of the United States (especiall ...

, the Van Cortlandt family and the Delancey family from colonial British North America. Their children were Gerald Arthur Hohler and Anne Elizabeth Hohler.The Descendants of William the Conqueror database http://www.william1.co.uk/wa1.htm#wa1l8. Accessed February 14, 2015 He died at Fawkham Manor, aged 75.

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1871 births 1946 deaths People educated at Eton College Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Denmark Companions of the Order of the Bath Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George English justices of the peace {{UK-diplomat-stub