Humphry Berkeley

Humphry Berkeley
Member of Parliament
for Lancaster
In office
8 October 1959 – 10 March 1966
Preceded byFitzroy Maclean
Succeeded byStanley Henig
Personal details
BornHumphry John Berkeley
(1926-02-21)21 February 1926
Died14 November 1994(1994-11-14) (aged 68)
Party
EducationPembroke College, Cambridge
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Humphry John Berkeley (21 February 1926 – 14 November 1994) was a British politician and author. He was noted for his three changes of parties and his early support for gay rights.

He is also remembered for a series of hoax letters he sent as fictional headmaster "H. Rochester Sneath" while an undergraduate, and later published as The Life and Death of Rochester Sneath.