Thomas Charles Atkinson Hislop CMG (29 November 1888 – 21 June 1965) was a New Zealand politician, lawyer, and diplomat.

[4] Hislop agreed to a request from the nationwide Unemployment Board to set up a voluntary local committee to run relief works in Wellington.

[5] By September 1932 Hislop was threatening to pull out of the Unemployment Board's scheme, arguing that with 4,033 men employed Wellington City Council was carrying a disproportionate burden.

At the 1943 election standing for the National Party in the Wellington North electorate, he came second but was beaten by Labour's Charles Chapman.

[9] 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.

[10][11] By World War II, 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 by some trade unionists on Hubert Nathan, a Jew and Citizens candidate for the Harbour Board, resulted in the defeat of all the Labour candidates to the Council in 1941.

[11] He strongly supported the war effort and in February 1940 he joined a crowd of several thousand people who marched to Pigeon Park to counter-protest a gathering of pacifists and conscientious objectors.

The government got their own back in 1942 when they refused to see a council deputation requesting state subsidies for thousands of earthquake damaged chimney pots.

[13] Ahead of the 1944 election Hislop was openly challenged for the Citizens' mayoral candidacy by councillors Will Appleton and William Gaudin.

Declining arbitration, Appleton got his wish after discussions when Hislop (albeit reluctantly) agreed to stand aside in the interests of unity.