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Thomas Charles Atkinson Hislop (1888–1965) was the Mayor of Wellington from 1931 to 1944. He was a Wellington City Councillor from 1913 to 1915, when he resigned to serve in the Wellington Regiment in World War I. He became a Councillor again from 1927 to 1931, and then Mayor from 1931 to 1945. He was the political leader of the Democrat Party organised by Albert Davy in 1934-35. The party was anti-socialist, but in the 1935 general election its main effect was to split the anti-Labour vote, and it disappeared soon afterwards. ''Mayor Tom Hislop was seen as a remote, even erratic figure, and his right-wing views regularly brought him into conflict with the wartime Labour government.'' But the attack on Hubert Nathan a Jew and Citizens candidate for the Harbour Board by some trade unionists resulted in the defeat of all the Labour candidates to the Council in 1941 〔''Wellington: Biography of a city'' by Redmer Yska (Reed, Auckland, 2006) page 158-159 ISBN 0-7900-1117-4〕 In 1940 Noël Coward was on a world entertainment and propaganda tour, and at a mayoral reception in Wellington had a ''set-to with the Mayoress'' who ''seemed to me to suffer from delusions of grandeur .... She said to me in ringing tones that I was never to dare to sing "The Stately Homes of England" again as it was an insult to the homeland and that neither she or anybody else liked it. I replied coldly that for many years it had been one of my greatest successes, whereupon she announced triumphantly to everyone within earshot: 'You see - he can’t take criticism!' Irritated beyond endurance I replied that I was perfectly prepared to take intelligent criticism at any time, but I was not prepared to tolerate bad manners. With this I bowed austerely and left the party.'' 〔''Future Indefinite'' by Noel Coward, page 185 (William Heinemann, London, 1954)〕〔''Wellington: Biography of a city'' by Redmer Yska (Reed, Auckland, 2006) pages 157-158 ISBN 0-7900-1117-4〕 Hislop was Chairman of the Wellington Provincial Centennial Council and the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition Company from 1937; the Centennial was in 1940. He was High Commissioner to Canada from 1950 to 1957. His father Thomas William Hislop was Mayor of Wellington from 1905 to 1908. ==References== 〔 ''No Mean City'' by Stuart Perry (1969, Wellington City Council) includes a paragraph and a portrait or photo for each mayor. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Thomas Hislop (mayor)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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