Humfrey Henry Edmunds (29 June 1890 - 6 April 1962) was a barrister and local politician.
Born in Finchley, he was the son of of Lewis Humfrey Edmunds, a barrister. He was sent to boarding school in Eastbourne and then attended Harrow School and the University of London. In 1910 he married Stella Hanson, daughter of an attendant at Broadmoor Criminal Asylum. He studied law at the Middle Temple and was called to the bar in 1915.
During the First World War he held a commission in the Royal Garrison Artillery, and received a pilot's licence in July 1916.
He sat as a Municipal Reform Party member of the London County Council representing Hackney Central from 1925-28.
He divorced his first wife and married Batrice Coleman in 1936. In 1942 he became a Bencher of the Middle Temple. In 1950 he was appointed Recorder of Bath, and in 1961 Deputy Chairman of the Court of Quarter Sessions for the County of Surrey: he held both these posts at the time of his death.
He died at Fulham Hospital aged 71 and was buried in Cholderton, Wiltshire.
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