Sir Francis Vernon Thomson,
GBE (10 February 1881 - 8 February 1953) was the first and last Baronet of
Monken Hadley, Hertfordshire. The title was created in 1938.
He was appointed as the chairman and managing director of the
Union-Castle Line after the end of the
First World War. During
World War II he was appointed as principal shipping advisor and controller of commercial shipping at the
MoWT
The Ministry of War Transport (MoWT) was a department of the British Government formed early in the Second World War to control transportation policy and resources. It was formed by merging the Ministry of Shipping and the Ministry of Transpor ...
. After the war he returned to his old rôle at Union-Castle.
He was a strict Methodist, a teetotaller and non-smoker and a lifelong bachelor.
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Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom
1881 births
1953 deaths
Members of the Order of the British Empire
Businesspeople from Manchester
Monken Hadley
20th-century English businesspeople
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