Travers Humphreys was born in Doughty Street in Bloomsbury in London, the fourth son and sixth child of solicitor Charles Octavius Humphreys, and his wife, Harriet Ann, the sister of the entertainer Richard Corney Grain.
15 Facts About Travers Humphreys
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Travers Humphreys applied for a warrant for Queensberry's arrest and approached Sir Edward Clarke and Charles Willie Mathews to represent Wilde.
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Travers Humphreys appeared as a Junior Counsel for the prosecution in the subsequent case of Wilde vs Queensbury.
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On 28 May 1896 Travers Humphreys married the actress Zoe Marguerite, the daughter of Henri Philippe Neumans, an artist from Antwerp.
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In 1902 Humphreys held a junior brief under H F Dickens KC for the defence of Emma 'Kitty' Byron, who was charged with the murder of Arthur Reginald Baker.
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Travers Humphreys was appointed Counsel for the Crown at the Middlesex and North London sessions in 1905, a junior Treasury Counsel to the Crown at the Central Criminal Court in 1908, and was appointed one of three senior Treasury Counsel in 1916.
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Travers Humphreys appeared for the prosecution at the Old Bailey in 1915 with Archibald Bodkin and Cecil Whiteley against George Joseph Smith, the 'Brides in the Bath' murderer.
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Travers Humphreys presided at the brief treason trial of John Amery, a British fascist who had set up the British Free Corps, a small wartime unit of British volunteers serving in the German Waffen SS.
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In 1949, Travers Humphreys presided over the trial of John George Haigh, the Acid Bath Murderer, whom he sentenced to death.
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Travers Humphreys was appointed a Knight Bachelor in 1925 and a Privy Counsellor in 1946.
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Travers Humphreys retired in 1951 as the senior and oldest King's Bench judge.
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Travers Humphreys was a member of the Garrick Club and was a keen yachtsman On his wife's death in 1953 Humphreys sold his Ealing home and moved into the Onslow Court Hotel, in Queen's Gate, South Kensington, which specialised in providing accommodation for retired people.
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Travers Humphreys was played by Ian Connaughton in the 2003 TV drama The Brides in the Bath; by Frederick Hall in The Edwardians episode 'Horatio Bottomley' ; by Raymond Huntley in the On Trial episode 'Horatio Bottomley, MP' ; and by John Barron in the 1960 episode 'Sir Roger Casement' in the same series.
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In 1955 Travers Humphreys appeared in Murder Anonymous, an episode in the long-running Scotland Yard series of short films, being interviewed by the host Edgar Lustgarten.
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Travers Humphreys speaks for several minutes at the start of the episode and then again near the end.