 He retired in 1951 as the senior and oldest King's Bench judge.He was a member of the Garrick Club and was a keen yachtsman On his wife's death in 1953 Humphreys sold his Ealing home and moved into the Onslow Court Hotel, in Queen's Gate, South Kensington, which specialised in providing accommodation for retired people.Coincidentally, this was the hotel occupied about four years before by John George Haigh and his victim Mrs Durand-Deacon.