Francis John Hemmings

Francis John Hemmings ( -1942) of F. H. Lloyd and Co

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1942 Obituary.

FRANCIS JOHN HEMMING died on November 10th, 1941, after a long illness; he was in his fiftieth year. Educated at King Edward’s School, Birmingham, he commenced his business career with Messrs. F. H. Lloyd & Co., Ltd.; he also gained experience in metallurgical work in the laboratories of the Patent Shaft and Axletree Co., Ltd. The outbreak of the first Great War cut short his studies, however, and he completed four years of service, first with the Fifth Battalion of the South Staffordshire Regiment and later with the Army Cyclist Corps; he held the rank of major. Resuming his business activities in 1918, he was appointed a director of Messrs. Lloyd’s; in 1926 he became second in command to the late Mr. D. C. Lloyd, whom he succeeded in 1931 as managing director. At his death he was chairman and managing director of the company.

Mr. Hemming was a Past-President of the Birmingham Branch of the Institute of British Foundrymen, and a member of the Birmingham Management Board of the Engineering and Allied Employers’ Association and of the Executive Committee of the General Steel Castings Association, which body he represented on the Council of the British Cast Iron Research Association. He was a strong supporter of technical education; he was a member of the West Midlands Advisory Council and the Staffordshire County Council College Committee.

Mr. Hemming was elected a Member of The Iron and Steel Institute in 1933. He was for a number of years an active Member of the Steel Castings Research Committee.

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