A. P. Humphry
English rifle shooter (1850–1916)
Alfred Paget Humphry (20 June 1850 – 6 October 1916) was an English marksman, lawyer, and author. He was born in Cambridge to George Murray Humphry, a surgeon at the city's Addenbrooke's Hospital. At Rugby School he competed in target rifle shooting, and set the record for an individual score in the match for the Ashburton Shield contested between the public schools. He continued to shoot as an undergraduate at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was a member of the Cambridge University Rifle Volunteers (CURV). In 1871, during his second year of study, he won the Queen's Prize, the premier contest of the annual meeting of the British National Rifle Association (NRA), then held on Wimbledon Common.
Humphry went on to win several other prizes at Wimbledon, including the Grand Aggregate, the overall ranking of the competitors at the meeting, in 1878. That year, he set a record for the most individual prizes won in a single Wimbledon meeting. He toured twice to the United States with teams representing Great Britain, both captained by Sir Henry Halford, and top-scored at 1,000 yards (910 m) in the British victory of 1882. He also competed for England in the match rifle contest for the Elcho Shield, including two victories in 1872 and 1888. In 1897, upon the death of Halford, The Times wrote that Humphry could claim to have been the best all-round shooter of his generation.
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