Christmas Humphreys

1901–1983

1 standalone book

Travers Christmas Humphreys was a British barrister who prosecuted several controversial cases in the 1940s and 1950s and later served as a judge at the Old Bailey. He was an enthusiastic Shakespeare scholar and a proponent of the Oxfordian theory of authorship. He authored numerous works on Mahayana Buddhism and was the most notable British convert to Buddhism in his day. In 1924, he founded what became the London Buddhist Society, which significantly influenced the growth of Buddhism in Britain, and his former home in St John's Wood, London, is now a Buddhist temple.

Born

1901