Cecil Humphery-Smith

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Cecil Raymond Julian Humphery-Smith, OBE, FSA, is a British genealogist and heraldist. It was Humphery-Smith who brought the concept of family history to the world of genealogy with his 1957 lecture "Introducing Family History." In 1961, he founded the Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies in Canterbury and has edited its journal since 1962.

Humphery-Smith has been a lecturer at University of London and other institutions for much of his professional career. He has long been the only British member of Council of L'Académie Internationale d’Héraldique and has received several other academic and literary honours and awards from around the world. In 2004, he was made an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for “Services to Education in Heraldry and Genealogy.”