From:  GAZETTEER OF INDIA: PUNJAB, HOSHIARPUR
PUNJAB DISTRICT GAZETTEERS, CHAPTER XI: REVENUE ADMINISTRATION

"... Second Revised Settlement, 1910-14

.

R. Humphreys

and H.L. Shuttleworth, Final Report of the Second Revised Settlement, 1910- 1914 of the Hoshiarpur District (Lahore, 1916)

Humphreys, R

. (1914), Assessment Report of the Garhshankar Tahsil of the Hoshiarpur District, Lahore,

Punjab

Government Press,

The settlement operations commenced in October 1910 and finished in September 1914. They were carried out by Mr.

R. Humphreys

, Settlement Officer, Hoshiarpur.  The settlement were made on the basis of circles in each tahsil.  The financial results of the settlement may be summed up as follows:

Robert Humphreys* achievements are reflected in his

Publications

"Alumni Cantabrigienses (the standard list of Cambridge alumni) has the following entry for your grandfather:

HUMPHREYS, ROBERT.
Admitted pensioner (i.e. an undergraduate who paid for his own fees) at TRINITY, Oct. 10. 1893.
Son of Robert, of Hayfield, Cork.
Born July 2, 1871, at Cork.
School, Cork (Mr Fawcett).
Matriculated Michaelmas 1893.
BA (University of Ireland & Trinity College Cambridge);

Humphreys' name appears in the printed list of Resident Members of the University dated 14 Oct. 1893, when he was living at 21 Malcolm Street, and in the next edition, dated 25 April 1894, when he had the privilege of rooms on R staircase in 'Old Court' (now known as Great Court). But his name does not occur in the next list, dated 13 Oct. 1894, by which date, it would appear from what you say, he was serving in India. It would therefore appear that he left Trinity before completing a full year here, and certainly he did not obtain a degree from this University. I am unable to say what the connection with the University of Ireland may be. I presume, however (if the statement is correct), that he somehow obtained a degree from that University at a later date, and that the reference to this College in the I.C.S. List simply indicates that he resided here for a while. "

After having left Queen's College, Cork, (1893) Robert Humphreys started studying for the Indian Civil Service at Trinity College, Cambridge.

. "The competitive examination for entry to the civil service [between 1858 and 1920] was combined for the Diplomatic, the Home, the Indian, and the Colonial Services. Candidates must be aged between 21 and 24, which gave everyone three chances for entry [....] Successful candidates underwent one or two years probation in England, according to whether they had taken the London or the Indian examination. This period was spent at the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge, or the School of Oriental Studies in London, where a candidate studied Law and the procedures of India, including criminal law and the Law of Evidence, which all gave the knowledge and the idea of the revenue system, reading Indian history and learning the language of the Province to which they had been assigned." (from: Wikipedia)

According to his birth certificate
Robert Humphreys was born at  Alma Cottages, 70 Sundays well road,  Cork,