Robert Arthur Humphreys OBE (1907–1999), known as Robin Humphreys, was a British historian, the first professor of Latin American studies in the United Kingdom, and the founder of the Institute of Latin American Studies at University College London.
[1][2] Born on 6 June 1907, Humphreys was educated at Lincoln Grammar School and graduated from Peterhouse, Cambridge.
In 1934 he was appointed assistant lecturer in American history at University College London (UCL).
After the war he returned to UCL and was promoted to reader, becoming, in 1948, the UK's first professor of Latin American history.
[1] In 1965 Humphreys was the founding Director of the University of London's Institute of Latin American Studies, a position he held until 1974.