Francis Humphrys

Lieutenant Colonel Sir Francis Henry Humphrys, GCMG, GCVO, KBE, CIE[1] (24 April 1879 – 28 August 1971) was a British cricketer, colonial administrator and diplomat.

[6] He was seconded to the Political Service and spent most of this part of his career in the North-West Frontier Province, although in 1918, towards the end of the First World War he returned to Europe and served with a temporary commission in the newly formed Royal Air Force.

Following the Anglo-Afghan "Treaty of Kabul" of 22 November 1921,[8] in early 1922 Humphrys was appointed the first British Minister to the Amir of Afghanistan, Amānullāh Khān.

[11] In the House of Commons on 4 February the Foreign Secretary, Austen Chamberlain, commended both Humphrys and his wife for their "courage and fortitude".

Humphrys died at a nursing home at Hamstead Marshall near Newbury, Berkshire in 1971, aged ninety-two.