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Christmas Humphreys
AuthorBooks · Second hand1901-1983
Travers Christmas Humphreys, QC was a British jurist 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.
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Birth
1901
Death
1983
Travers Christmas Humphreys, QC was a British jurist 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.
Christmas Humphreys was a prominent British barrister and judge who served at the famous Old Bailey court.
He is recognized as the most influential British convert to Buddhism of his time.
He founded the Buddhist Society in London in 1924, fostering the growth of the Buddhist tradition in the country.
Beyond his legal career, he was a passionate Shakespeare scholar and a proponent of the Oxfordian theory.
His former home in St John's Wood, London, has been transformed into a Buddhist temple today.
