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He came to Room 40 in 1915.
Montgomery was 45 at the time of his work on the Zimmermann
telegram. A Liverpool shipowner's son who studied in private schools or
under tutors in England, France, and Germany, he took a bachelor of
divinity degree at Presbyterian College, London. But his health prevented
an active pastorate and he became a member of St. John's College at
Cambridge University. He specialized in early church history, editing the
Confessions of St. Augustine for the Cambridge Patristic Series and
writing a study on the life and thought of the African father. His most
memorable work, however, was as a translator. It was said of his
translation of Albert Schweitzer's The Quest of the Historical Jesus in
1910 that "no German work has ever been rendered into English so
idiomatically and yet so faithfully." A modest, reticent man, Montgomery
entered the censor's office in 1916, and later that year moved to Room
40.
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