Nigel de Grey (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Nigel de Grey (27 March 1886 - 25 May 1951), CMG, OBE, British codebreaker. Son of the rector of Copdock Suffolk and grandson of the 5th Lord Walsingham he was educated at Eton College and became fluent in French and German. In 1907 he joined the publishing firm of William Heinemann and married three years later. Shy and physically small, a colleague labelled him 'the doormouse'De Grey joined the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve and served in Belgium. He was transferred to Naval Intelligence Division, Room 40 codebreaking section in early 1915. De Grey, together with Reverend William Montgomery, decrypted the Zimmermann Telegram on 17 January 1917. The Zimmermann Telegram was from the German foreign secretary Arthur Zimmermann to the German ambassador Heinrich von Eckardt in Mexico, telling him to offer the Mexican government the return of the states of Arizona, Texas and New Mexico as an inducement to Mexico to side with Germany against the United States.