John Lisseter Humphreys

John Lisseter Humphreys CMG CBE (21 September 1881 – 15 December 1929) was a British colonial administrator, and Governor of North Borneo from 15 October 1926[1] until his death while on leave in China in December 1929.

[2] Humphreys was educated at Bromsgrove School.

He was a senior classical scholar of Brasenose College, Oxford and entered the Straits Settlement Civil Service in 1905 as Cadet.

[3] He was British Agent at Terengganu from 1916–1919; Adviser at Terengganu from 1919–25, Adviser at Kedah from 1925–1926, before being appointed Governor of North Borneo in October 1926.

[4] During his furlough in late 1929, he contracted pneumonia and was rushed to the hospital in Tientsin where he succumbed due to a heart failure on the afternoon of Sunday, 15 December.

24 January 1990
Grave of the Humphreys family, located in the churchyard at St John the Baptist Church, Bromsgrove