Thomas Basil Humphreys (March 10, 1840 – August 26, 1890) was an English-born miner, auctioneer and political figure in British Columbia.
[1] Humphrey's daughter Josephine Virginia Edwards, who was born in 1868 and had moved to Victoria with him before his marriage, was sent to St. Mary's Indian Residential School in what is now Mission.
Humphreys moved the confidence motion which brought down the government of John Foster McCreight in 1872 but soon joined the opposition after he was not named to cabinet.
[1] He was elected to the assembly for Comox in a December 1887 by-election held after Anthony Maitland Stenhouse resigned his seat to become a Mormon.
[4][3] Humphreys helped promote the construction of the Lillooet–Burrard Inlet Cattle Trail, built from 1875 to 1877 to provide a more efficient route to coastal markets.