Frank Dymond was born on 20th November 1896 in Tung-Chuan, Yunnan, the second son of the Bible Christian missionaries Francis John Dymond and Maud Marie Cannon.
He was converted at the Hoe Grammar School, Plymouth, of which his uncle George was headmaster, and intended to become a minister like his father. As with so many of his generation his life was changed by the First World War, in which he served. After the war he entered medical school and trained as a doctor. He then entered the ministry, going out to work at Wenchow Hospital where he served from 1925 to 1928. In 1928 he moved to Chao Tung Hospital where he sadly died of acute tonsilitis.
There is an obituary in the Minutes of the United Methodist Church 1928, p.183. Another, by his uncle George P. Dymond, appeared in The Missionary Echo of the United Methodist Church 1929 pp84-87
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
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