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Humphry Berkeley Humphry John Berkeley (21 February 192614 November 1994) was a British politician and author. He was noted for his three changes of parties and his early support for gay rights. He is also remembered for a series of hoax letters he sent as fic ...

(1926–1994), British politician *

Humphry Bowen __NOTOC__ Humphry John Moule Bowen (22 June 1929 – 9 August 2001) was a British botanist and chemist. Bowen was born in Oxford, son of the chemist Edmund Bowen. He attended the Dragon School, gaining a scholarship to Rugby School and then ...

(1929–2001), British botanist and chemist *

Humphry Davy Sir Humphry Davy, 1st Baronet, (17 December 177829 May 1829) was a British chemist and inventor who invented the Davy lamp and a very early form of arc lamp. He is also remembered for isolating, by using electricity, several elements for t ...

(1778–1829), British scientist *

Humphry Ditton Humphry Ditton (29 May 1675 – 15 October 1715) was an English mathematician. He was the author of several influential works. Life Ditton was born on 29 May 1675 in Salisbury, the only son of Humphry Ditton, gentleman and ardent nonconformist, ...

(1675–1715), British mathematician * Humphry Garratt (1898–1974), British cricket player *

Humphry Knipe Victor Humphry Knipe (born 1941) is a sociology and history author, and adult film writer, director, and website administrator. He is a co-author of ''The Dominant Man: The Pecking Order in Human Society'', a sociology book which has been tran ...

(born 1941), South African writer * Humphry Legge, 8th Earl of Dartmouth (1888–1962), British police officer * Humphry Marshall (1722–1801), American botanist *

Humphry Morice Humphry Morice may refer to: * Humphry Morice (Governor of the Bank of England) (c. 1671 – 1731), British merchant * Humphry Morice (MP for Launceston) Humphry Morice (1723 – 18 October 1785) was a Whig Member of Parliament for the Cornish ...

(1671–1731), British banker * Humphry Osmond (1917–2004), British psychiatrist *

Humphry Repton Humphry Repton (21 April 1752 – 24 March 1818) was the last great English landscape designer of the eighteenth century, often regarded as the successor to Capability Brown; he also sowed the seeds of the more intricate and eclectic styles of ...

(1752–1818), British landscape designer *

Humphry Rolleston Sir Humphry Davy Rolleston, 1st Baronet, (21 June 1862 – 23 September 1944) was a prominent English physician. Rolleston was the son of George Rolleston (Linacre Professor of Physiology at Oxford) and Grace Davy, daughter of John Davy an ...

(1862–1944), British physician *

Thomas Humphry Ward Thomas Humphry Ward (9 November 1845 – 6 May 1926) was an English author and journalist, (usually writing as Humphry Ward) but best known as the husband of the author Mary Augusta Ward, who wrote under the name Mrs. Humphry Ward. Life He wa ...

(1845–1926), British writer *

Humphry William Woolrych Humphry William Woolrych (1795–1871) was an English lawyer, known as a legal writer and biographer. Life He was the son of Humphry Cornewall Woolrych and Elizabeth, elder daughter of William Bentley of Red Lion Square, London, and was born at S ...

(1795–1871), British lawyer and writer

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* C.E. Humphry (1854–1925), British journalist *

Derek Humphry Derek Humphry (born 29 April 1930) is a British-born American journalist and author notable as a proponent of legal assisted suicide and the right to die. In 1980, he co-founded the Hemlock Society and, in 2004, after that organization dissolv ...

(born 1930), American writer *

George Humphry George Edward Humphry (1816 – 25 January 1867) was an English cricketer. Humphry made his first-class debut for Hampshire in 1845 Petworth Cricket Club. Humphry played four further first-class matches from 1845 to 1850, with his final ...

(1816–1867), British cricketer *

George Murray Humphry Sir George Murray Humphry, FRS (18 July 1820 – 24 September 1896) was a professor of physiology and anatomy at Cambridge, surgeon, gerontologist and medical writer. Life He was born at Sudbury in Suffolk on 18 July 1820, the third son of Will ...

(1820–1896), British doctor and writer *

Jay Humphry Jay (James Clarke)"1963 North American, U.S., and Canadian Champions", ''Skating'' magazine, May 1963 Humphry (born July 28, 1948 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian former figure skater who competed in men's singles. He won the gold m ...

(born 1948), Canadian figure skater *

Ozias Humphry Ozias Humphry (or Humphrey) (8 September 1742 – 9 March 1810) was a leading English painter of portrait miniatures, later oils and pastels, of the 18th century. He was elected to the Royal Academy in 1791, and in 1792 he was appointed ''Port ...

(1742–1810), British painter * William Gilson Humphry (1815–1886), British clergyman

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Humphry Clinker ''The Expedition of Humphry Clinker'' was the last of the picaresque novels of Tobias Smollett, published in London on 17 June 1771 (three months before Smollett's death), and is considered by many to be his best and funniest work. It is an epist ...

, fictional character in the novel ''The Expedition of Humphry Clinker'' by Tobias Smollett

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