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	==Early life and cricket==		==Early life and cricket==
	Francis Henry Humphrys was born in [[Shropshire]], at Beatrice Street, [[Oswestry]], where his father was assistant master at [[Oswestry School]]. He was educated at [[Shrewsbury School]], where he was captain of cricket and head of the school, and [[Christ Church, Oxford]], where he played [[first-class cricket]] for [[Oxford University Cricket Club\|Oxford University]]. His first-class debut came against the touring [[Australian national cricket team\|Australians]] in 1899. He played 3 further first-class matches in 1900, the last coming against [[Sussex County Cricket Club\|Sussex]].<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/30/30480/First-Class_Matches.html\|title=First-Class Matches played by Francis Humphrys\|publisher=CricketArchive\|accessdate=25 May ~~2022~~}}</ref> In his 4 first-class matches, he took 13 wickets at a [[bowling average]] of 19.46, with best figures of 4/16.<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/30/30480/f_Bowling_by_Team.html\|title=First-class Bowling For Each Team by Francis Humphrys\|publisher=CricketArchive\|accessdate=25 May ~~2022~~}}</ref> While at school, and later, he also played [[Minor Counties Championship]] cricket for [[Wiltshire County Cricket Club\|Wiltshire]].<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/30/30480/Minor_Counties_Championship_Matches.html\|title=Minor Counties Championship Matches played by Francis Humphrys\|publisher=CricketArchive\|accessdate=25 May ~~2022~~}}</ref>		Francis Henry Humphrys was born in [[Shropshire]], at Beatrice Street, [[Oswestry]], where his father was assistant master at [[Oswestry School]]. He was educated at [[Shrewsbury School]], where he was captain of cricket and head of the school, and [[Christ Church, Oxford]], where he played [[first-class cricket]] for [[Oxford University Cricket Club\|Oxford University]]. His first-class debut came against the touring [[Australian national cricket team\|Australians]] in 1899. He played 3 further first-class matches in 1900, the last coming against [[Sussex County Cricket Club\|Sussex]].<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/30/30480/First-Class_Matches.html\|title=First-Class Matches played by Francis Humphrys\|publisher=CricketArchive\|accessdate=25 May 2011}}</ref> In his 4 first-class matches, he took 13 wickets at a [[bowling average]] of 19.46, with best figures of 4/16.<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/30/30480/f_Bowling_by_Team.html\|title=First-class Bowling For Each Team by Francis Humphrys\|publisher=CricketArchive\|accessdate=25 May 2011}}</ref> While at school, and later, he also played [[Minor Counties Championship]] cricket for [[Wiltshire County Cricket Club\|Wiltshire]].<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/30/30480/Minor_Counties_Championship_Matches.html\|title=Minor Counties Championship Matches played by Francis Humphrys\|publisher=CricketArchive\|accessdate=25 May 2011}}</ref>

	==Career==		==Career==

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[[File:Sir Francis Humphrys (Baghdad) cropped.png|thumb|alt=Sir Francis Humphrys in Baghdad|Celebration of Iraq becoming member of the League of Nations, 6 October 1932. Baghdad. Sir Francis Humphrys, British Ambassador, taking leave of the King's Chamberlain at the Palace]]
[[Lieutenant-Colonel (United Kingdom)|Lieutenant-Colonel]] '''Sir Francis Henry Humphrys''' {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|GCMG|GCVO|KBE|CIE}}<ref>{{cite web | url =http://untreaty.un.org/unts/60001_120000/17/39/00033918.pdf
| work = United Nations Treaty Collection
| title = Extradition Treaty, signed at Bagdad, May 2, 1932, and Exchanges of Notes relating thereto }}</ref>
(24 April 1879 – 28 August 1971) was a British [[cricket]]er, colonial administrator and diplomat.

==Early life and cricket==
Francis Henry Humphrys was born in [[Shropshire]], at Beatrice Street, [[Oswestry]], where his father was assistant master at [[Oswestry School]]. He was educated at [[Shrewsbury School]], where he was captain of cricket and head of the school, and [[Christ Church, Oxford]], where he played [[first-class cricket]] for [[Oxford University Cricket Club|Oxford University]]. His first-class debut came against the touring [[Australian national cricket team|Australians]] in 1899. He played 3 further first-class matches in 1900, the last coming against [[Sussex County Cricket Club|Sussex]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/30/30480/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-Class Matches played by Francis Humphrys|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=25 May 2022}}</ref> In his 4 first-class matches, he took 13 wickets at a [[bowling average]] of 19.46, with best figures of 4/16.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/30/30480/f_Bowling_by_Team.html|title=First-class Bowling For Each Team by Francis Humphrys|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=25 May 2022}}</ref> While at school, and later, he also played [[Minor Counties Championship]] cricket for [[Wiltshire County Cricket Club|Wiltshire]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/30/30480/Minor_Counties_Championship_Matches.html|title=Minor Counties Championship Matches played by Francis Humphrys|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=25 May 2022}}</ref>

==Career==
After graduating from Oxford in 1900, Humphrys joined the [[Worcestershire Regiment]] and served in the [[Second Boer War]]. Following the war he was in February 1902 seconded to the [[Indian Staff Corps]],<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=27425 |page=2505 |date=15 April 1902}}</ref> and in October the same year he left his regiment and was transferred to the [[British Indian Army|Indian Army]].<ref>[http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/27623/pages/8027 The London Gazette, 4 December 1903]</ref> He was seconded to the [[Indian Political Service|Political Service]] and spent most of this part of his career in the [[North-West Frontier Province (1901–1955)|North-West Frontier Province]], although in 1918, towards the end of [[World War I]] he returned to Europe and served with a temporary commission in the newly formed [[Royal Air Force]].<ref>[http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/31118/pages/518 The London Gazette, 10 January 1919]</ref> In 1919 he returned to India, first as a [[Political officer (British Empire)|political agent]] and then, in 1921, as deputy Foreign Secretary in the [[British Raj|Government of India]].

Following the Anglo-Afghan "Treaty of Kabul" of 22 November 1921,<ref>[http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/anglo-afghan-treaty-of-1921-the-outcome-of-peace-negotiations-following-the-third-anglo-afghan-war Anglo-Afghan Treaty of 1921], ''Encyclopædia Iranica'', 2011</ref> in early 1922 Humphrys was appointed the first British [[Minister (diplomacy)|Minister]] to the Amir of Afghanistan, [[Amānullāh Khān]].<ref>[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/32602/page/1078 The London Gazette, 7 February 1922]</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bl.uk/collections/afghan/afghanrep.html |work=British Library |title=Representatives of the Government of India and the British Government in Afghanistan, c.1856-1947 |accessdate=2008-08-24 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080517064731/http://www.bl.uk/collections/afghan/afghanrep.html |archivedate=17 May 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
In November 1928 a rebellion began in [[Jalalabad]] and tribal forces marched on Kabul, and in early 1929 Humphrys supervised the evacuation by air of several hundred Europeans in what became known as the [[Kabul airlift of 1928–1929|Kabul Airlift]].<ref>Back from Kabul – Sir F. Humphrys in India, ''The Times'', London, 26 February 1929, page 16</ref> In the House of Commons on 4 February the Foreign Secretary, [[Austen Chamberlain]], commended both Humphrys and his wife for their 'courage and fortitude'.<ref>[http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1929/feb/04/british-minister-and-staff Hansard, 4 February 1929]</ref> In the [[King's Birthday Honours]] of that year Humphrys was given the additional knighthood of KCMG<ref>[http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/33501/supplements/3670 Supplement to the London Gazette, 3 June 1929]</ref> and Lady Humphrys was made DBE.<ref>[http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/33501/supplements/3678 Supplement to the London Gazette, 3 June 1929]</ref>

Later in 1929 Humphrys was appointed to be [[High Commissioner]] in the [[Kingdom of Iraq (Mandate administration)|Kingdom of Iraq]],<ref>[http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/33556/pages/7780 The London Gazette, 29 November 1929]</ref><ref>{{cite web |
url =http://www.britishempire.co.uk/maproom/iraq.htm
| work = The British Empire - where the Sun never sets
| title = Iraq - Initial Contacts with the British}}</ref>
then under British administration. Following the [[Anglo-Iraqi Treaty (1930)]], which Humphrys signed for the United Kingdom, on 3 October 1932 Iraq became an independent kingdom and Humphrys became the first British Ambassador to Iraq.<ref>[http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/33889/pages/7737 The London Gazette, 6 December 1932]</ref>

In 1935 Humphrys retired from the diplomatic service and was appointed chairman of a Sugar Tribunal<ref>Sugar Tribunal – Advice on Schemes of Amalgamation, ''The Times'', London, 1 October 1935</ref> which resulted in the creation of the [[British Sugar Corporation]], of which he was chairman from its formation from 1936 to 1949. He was also the director of several other companies and was the chairman of the [[Iraq Petroleum Company]] from 1941 to 1950.

==Family==
In 1907 Francis Humphrys married Gertrude Mary Deane, known as "Gertie", elder daughter of [[Harold Arthur Deane|Sir Harold Deane]], Chief Commissioner of the North-West Frontier Province. They had a son and two daughters.

He died at a nursing home at [[Hamstead Marshall]] near [[Newbury, Berkshire|Newbury]], [[Berkshire]] in 1971, aged ninety-two. Lady Humphrys died in 1973.

==Honours==
Francis Humphrys was knighted KBE in the [[King's Birthday Honours]] of 1924,<ref>[http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/32941/supplements/4416 Supplement to the London Gazette, 3 June 1924]</ref> awarded the additional honours of GCVO in 1928 and KCMG in 1929, and promoted GCMG in the [[New Year Honours]] of 1932.<ref>[http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/33785/supplements/5 Supplement to the London Gazette, 1 January 1932]</ref> Amānullāh Khān made him a member of the [[Sardar|''Nishan-i-Sardari'']] (Order of the Leader), with the title of ''Sardar-i-ala'', in 1928; the [[Faisal I of Iraq|King of Iraq]] awarded him the Grand Cordon of the [[Order of the Two Rivers|''Wisam al-Rafidain'']] (Order of the Two Rivers) in 1933.

==Offices held==
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{{succession box|title=[[List of Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Afghanistan|Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to His Majesty the Amir of Afghanistan]]
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|after=[[Richard Roy Maconachie|Sir Richard Maconachie]]
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==See also==
*[[1929 in Afghanistan]]
*[[British Mandate of Iraq]]
*[[Anglo-Iraqi Treaty (1930)]]

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/15055.html Francis Humphrys] at [[ESPNcricinfo]]
* [https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/30/30480/30480.html Francis Humphrys] at CricketArchive
* [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U155906 HUMPHRYS, Lt-Col Sir Francis Henry], Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007
* Peter Sluglett, [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/37582 Humphrys, Sir Francis Henry (1879–1971)], ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004, online edn, May 2006
* Sir Francis Humphrys – Distinguished career in Afghanistan and Iraq, ''The Times'', London, 1 September 1971, page 14

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