Dymond, Francis John (1865-1932)

Family

Francis John was born in Torquay during 1865, the second son of the Bible Christian minister John Dymond and his wife Marianna. (In some official documents her name is recorded as Mary Emma).

Educated at Shebbear College, he entered the Bible Christian ministry in 1886, going out to China where he remained for his entire ministry. He came home on furlough at regular intervals. His leadership of the mission in South West China is credited with its success.

He married Maud Marie Cannon (1868-1934), a fellow Bible Christian missionary, on 12th September 1894, in Chungking.  They had seven children

• John Jordan (1895-1918)  Killed in action
• Francis Spencer  (1896-1928)  A medical missionary in China
• George Pearse (1898-1958)
• Catherine Muriel (1900-1991) A missionary to China, who married a fellow missionary
• Emslie Chalmers (1902-1980)  A medical doctorin Sarawak
• Roxie Maud (1904-1972) A missionary to China, who married a fellow missionary
• Dorothy Eileen (1906-1993) A nurse in Hunnan from 1936

Francis John died on 16th March 1932, in Birmingham, whilst on furlough.  His obituary may be found in the Minutes of the United Methodist Church 1932. p.43 and 198

Circuits

• 1886  China
• 1887  Ganking Language School
• 1888  Chao Tong Foo (received into full connexion 1890)
• 1891   Yunnan Foo
• 1892  Tung Chuan Fu
• 1893  Chao Tung Fu
• 1897  furlough
• 1899  Yunnan Foo
• 1902  Tung Chuan Fu
• 1909  furlough
• 1910   Chao Tong
• 1917  furlough
• 1918   Chao Tong
• 1922  Yunnan Fu
• 1923  Yunnan Fu and Kopu
• 1924  furlough
• 1925  Tong Chuan
• 1927  Yunnan Fu and Kopu
• 1931  furlough

He was Chairman of the District meeting from 1918 to1923, and District Finance Secretary in 1916 and  1927.

References

Oliver A Beckerlegge, United Methodist ministers and their circuits: Being an arrangement in alphabetical order of the stations of ministers of the Methodist New … and the United Methodist Church, 1797-1932

Missionary Echo of the United Methodist Church

Census Returns and Births, Marriages & Deaths Registers