Henry Humphreys
Henry Humphreys ( -1924)
1924 Obituary[1]
"The Late Sir Henry Humphreys.—The death took place on Tuesday, May 27, at Devonport, of Engineer Rear-Admiral Sir Henry Humphreys, K.C.M.G. He was the son of Major D. Humphreys, R.A„ and entered the Royal Navy as an assistant engineer in 1885. On being promoted to engineer in 1889 he joined the Warspite. From 1895 to 1898 he was senior engineer at Halifax Dockyard. While in this post he was awarded the medal of the Royal Humane Society for saving the life of a workman who was badly injured, and thrown into the water when a dockyard crane gave way. From service as chief engineer' on the torpedo boat Speedy he was promoted in 1902 engineer-commander and appointed to the Vulcan. Later he was selected as Admiralty Engineer Overseer' at the works of Messrs John Brown and Co. at Clydebank and supervised the' construction of the Inflexible and afterwards was appointed for duty on the ship in; the Home Fleet. In 1911 he was promoted to the rank of engineer-captain and became engineer overseer at the Fairfield Yard at Govan. At the end of another' two years he was appointed engineer officer on the staff of Admiral Sir Berkeley Milne, Commander-in-Chief in the Mediterranean. In 1915 he was Chief Engineer on Admiral de Robeck’s staff and was commended for service in action at. Gallipoli and received the C.B. Later he went to Scapa and remained there until " his promotion to Engineer Rear-Admiral. .His last appointment was as chief engineer at Devonport which he gave up on retirement in April, 1921. For long and distinguished service he was awarded the K.C.M.G. in 1919."