Humphry Berkeley | |
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| Member of Parliament for Lancaster | |
| In office 8 October 1959 – 10 March 1966 | |
| Preceded by | Fitzroy Maclean |
| Succeeded by | Stanley Henig |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Humphry John Berkeley 21 February 1926 Marlow, Buckinghamshire, England |
| Died | 14 November 1994 (aged 68) |
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| Education | Pembroke College, Cambridge |
Humphry John Berkeley (21 February 1926 – 14 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 fictional headmaster "H. Rochester Sneath" while an undergraduate, and later published as The Life and Death of Rochester Sneath.