Robert Arthur Humphreys

Robert Arthur Humphreys (1907–1999), known as Robin Humphreys, was a British historian, the first professor of Latin American studies in the United Kingdom, and the founder of the Institute of Latin American Studies at University College London. His books cover the emancipation of South America, British diplomacy in Central America, and the evolution of modern Latin America.

He died on 2 May 1999 aged 91.

Works British Consular Reports on the Trade and Politics of Latin America, 1824-1826 (1940) Latin America (1941) "The Study of Latin-American History in England" William Robertson and his History of America (1954) "William Hickling Prescott: The Man and the Historian" (1959) Tradition and Revolt in Latin America, and other essays (1969) Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Volume 1: 1939 - 1942, Bloomsbury Academic, Volume 2: 1942 - 1945, Bloomsbury Academic,