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Travers Humphreys

Sir Travers Humphreys
Travers Humphreys in about 1928
Justice of His Majesty's High Court of Justice
In office
18 February 1928 – 1 October 1951
Personal details
Born(1867-08-04)4 August 1867
Bloomsbury, England
Died20 February 1956(1956-02-20) (aged 88)
South Kensington, England
SpouseZoë Marguerite Neumans
ChildrenRichard Grain Humphreys (1897–1917)
Travers Christmas Humphreys (1901–83)
Alma materTrinity Hall, Cambridge

Sir Richard Somers Travers Christmas Humphreys (4 August 1867 – 20 February 1956) was a noted British barrister who, during a sixty-year legal career, was involved in the cases of Oscar Wilde and the murderers Hawley Harvey Crippen, George Joseph Smith and John George Haigh, the 'Acid Bath Murderer', among many others.


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