Noun
Sir Humphrey (plural Sir Humphreys)
(UK) A high-ranking bureaucrat, particularly one who is elitist and deliberately obscure.
Sir Humphrey Davy Abominated gravy. He lived in the odium Of having discovered sodium. Edmund Clerihew Bentley
The principles upon which a safety lamp might be constructed I stated to several persons long before Sir Humphrey Davy came into this part of the country. George Stephenson