A. P. Humphry

Alfred Paget Humphry MVO (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.

Humphry practised as a barrister, and was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn of Court in 1875. He became a leading member of the governing council of the NRA, its executive officer in 1881, and its secretary in 1889. He held the ceremonial and administrative position of Senior Esquire Bedell at Cambridge University from 1877 until his resignation in 1913, and several official positions in the town of Cambridge. As an officer in the Volunteer Force, he rose to the rank of colonel and was commanding officer of the CURV from 1886 to 1889. Between 1900 and 1905, he was a member of the War Office Small Arms Committee, which advised the British government on military firearms. He also published books and articles on rifle shooting, the history of the NRA, and Horham Hall, a stately home near Thaxted in Essex he purchased in 1905.