William Humphery

Who is William Humphery?

Sir William Henry Humphery, 1st Baronet, was a British Conservative politician.

Humphery was the son of John Humphery, Lord Mayor of London and Member of Parliament for Southwark, by his wife Mary Burgess, daughter of William Burgess. He was returned to Parliament for Andover in 1863, a seat he held until 1867, when he resigned through his appointment as Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds. In 1868 he was created a baronet, of Penton Lodge in the County of Southampton. He also served as High Sheriff of Hampshire from 1872 to 1873.

Humphery married firstly Maria Cubitt, daughter of William Cubitt, in 1850. After her death in 1897 he married secondly Mary Catherine Alderson, daughter of Sir Edward Hall Alderson, in 1898. He died in March 1909, aged 82, when the baronetcy became extinct.