Sir Francis Vernon Thomson, 1st Baronet, GBE (10 February 1881 - 8 February 1953) was the first and last Baronet of

Monken Hadley Monken Hadley is an area in the London Borough of Barnet, at the northern edge of Greater London, England, lying some north north-west of Charing Cross. Anciently a country village near Chipping Barnet in Middlesex, and from 1889 to 1965 in Her ...

, Hertfordshire. The title was created in 1938. He was appointed as the chairman and managing director of the

Union-Castle Line The Union-Castle Line was a British shipping line that operated a fleet of passenger liners and cargo ships between Europe and Africa from 1900 to 1977. It was formed from the merger of the Union Line and Castle Shipping Line. It merged with ...

after the end of the

First World War World War I or the First World War (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918), also known as the Great War, was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War I, Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers. Fighting to ...

. During

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he was appointed as principal shipping advisor and controller of commercial shipping at the MoWT. 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 Residents of Monken Hadley 20th-century English businesspeople {{UK-baronet-stub