Christmas Humphreys

Christmas Humphreys
QC
Christmas Humphreys
Born(1901-02-15)15 February 1901
Ealing, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Died13 April 1983(1983-04-13) (aged 82)
St John's Wood, London, United Kingdom
Occupation(s)Barrister; judge; author
Years active1924–1976

Travers Christmas Humphreys, QC (15 February 1901 – 13 April 1983)[1] was a British barrister who prosecuted several controversial cases in the 1940s and 1950s, and who later became a judge at the Old Bailey. He also wrote a number of works on Mahayana Buddhism and in his day was the best-known British convert to Buddhism. In 1924 he founded what became the London Buddhist Society, which was to have a seminal influence on the growth of the Buddhist tradition in Britain. His former home in St John's Wood, London, is now a Buddhist temple. He was an enthusiastic proponent of the Oxfordian theory of Shakespeare authorship.

  1. ^ Daw, Muriel (February 2016). "Christmas Humphreys 1901-1983 A Pioneer of Buddhism in the West". The Middle Way. 89 (4). Buddhist Society: 279–286. ISSN 0026-3214.