William Evans Hugh Humphrys

Born: 1876.

Died: 1950.

William Evans Hugh Humphrys was a journalist educated at Cambridge University. He was initiated into the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn at its Isis-Urania temple in London in November 1899. He had had a classical education and chose a motto in Greek: the transliteration is gnothi seauton. He made quick progress through the study that was necessary to join the inner order and was initiated into that Second Order in March 1901. He stood aside from the strife and upset that was engulfing the Golden Dawn at that time; but he also didn’t join either of the daughter orders that emerged in 1903.