Watts Humphrey [SEP] educated at
he received a bachelor of science in physics from the University of Chicago, a master of science in physics from Illinois Institute of Technology physics department, and a master of business administration from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.
In 1953 he went to Boston and worked at Sylvania Labs.
In 1959 he joined IBM.
In the late 1960s, Humphrey headed the IBM software team that introduced the first software license. Humphrey was a vice president at IBM. 
In the 1980s at the Software Engineering Institute
, an Elizabethan house near Crewe, bought by her father after the First World War. Her father, Col. Humphrey Watts, was a prosperous Manchester-based industrialist whose family's wealth derived from S & J Watts, a textile business founded in 1798.
She was educated at St. Winifred's, Eastbourne, but left before taking her school certificate to go on to a finishing school outside Paris. She met Jock Hanbury, a member of the Truman, Hanbury, Buxton & Co brewing family, while on a