Christmas Humphreys, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Christmas Humphreys

British barrister

Date of Birth: 15-Feb-1901

Place of Birth: London

Date of Death: 13-Apr-1983

Profession: judge, writer, lawyer, poet, author, barrister

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Travers Christmas Humphreys, QC (15 February 1901 – 13 April 1983) was an English barrister who prosecuted several controversial cases in the 1940s and 1950s, and 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 also an enthusiastic proponent of the Oxfordian theory of Shakespeare authorship.