Christmas Humphreys
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Travers Christmas Humphreys, QC (15 February 1901 – 13 April 1983) was a British barrister who prosecuted several controversial cases in the 1940s and 1950s, and later became a judge at the Old Bailey. He was an enthusiastic Shakespeare scholar and proponent of the Oxfordian theory. Author of numerous works on Mahayana Buddhism, he was in his day the most noted 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.
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Buddhism
The world’s premier authority on religious traditions and his premier successor present a concise and timely guide to the history, teachings, and practice of Buddhism.
The great pearl robbery of 1913
The robbery took place in Hatton Garden and there was a necklace of black pearls that was taken. They ended up being found in a matchbox in the gutter in Islington. Those involved included Joseph Grizard, Brandstater and Quadratstein