Humphrey

( Master ), the hypothetical compiler of the tale entitled “Barnaby Rudge” in Master Humphrey’s Clock , by Charles Dickens (1840). Humphrey ( Old ), pseudonym of George Mogridge. ⁂ George Mogridge has also i ued several books under the popular name of “Peter Parley,” which was first a umed by S.G. Good rich, in 1828. Several publishers of high standing have condescended to palm books on the public under this nom de plume , some written by William Martin, and others by persons wholly unknown. Humphrey ( The good duke ), Humphrey Plantage net, duke of Gloucester, youngest son of Henry IV., murdered in 1446. Humphrey ( To dine with duke ), to go without dinner. To stay behind in St. Paul’s aisles, under pretence of finding out the monument of Duke Humphrey, while others more fortunate go home to dinner. ⁂ It was really the monument of John Beauchamp that the “dinnerle ” hung about, and not that of Duke Humphrey. John Beauchamp died in 1359, and Duke Humphrey in 1446.