H. A. Humphrey
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Herbert Alfred Humphrey MInstCE MIMechE MIEE FCGI (2 December 1868 – 9 March 1951) was a British engineer, inventor of the Humphrey pump.[1][2][3]
Humphrey was born in Gospel Oak, London. Edith Humphrey was his younger sister. He trained at the Finsbury Technical College and the Central Institution (which later became the City and Guilds College).
He patented the Humphrey pump in 1906.
During World War I he worked as a chemical engineer, working on improving the production of explosives.[citation needed]
He was awarded the Melchett Medal in 1939 by the Institute of Fuel.
In 1945 he retired to Hermanus, Cape Province, Union of South Africa. He died there in 1951.
He was married to Mary Elizabeth Horniblow. They had three sons and two daughters, the bacteriologist John H. Humphrey among the former.
A collection of Humphrey's papers is held in the archives of Imperial College London.[2]
External links
- "Herbert Alfred Humphrey". Grace's Guide to British Industrial History. 11 April 2018. Retrieved 21 August 2020.
- Slade, R. E.; Barrett, Anne (23 September 2004). "Humphrey, Herbert Alfred (1868–1951), mechanical and chemical engineer". In Barrett, Anne (ed.). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/34052. Retrieved 25 March 2021.
References
- ^ ‘HUMPHREY, Herbert Alfred’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 10 Aug 2014
- ^ a b Pingree, Jeanne; Smith, Denis (1971). List of the papers of H. A. Humphrey in the Imperial College Archives (PDF). Imperial College London.
- ^ "Obituary: Mr. H. A. Humphrey, Inventor of Humphrey Gas Pump". The Times. No. 51948. 13 March 1951. p. 8.
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