Reverend Francis Patrick Fleming
(1823-1895)
5 June 1861

Volume 4, page 24, sitting number 4167.

Reverend Francis Patrick Fleming, later Flemyng, went up to Magdalene College, Cambridge, in 1843, graduating BA in 1847, MA in 1852, and LLD in 1867. From 1853 to 1855 he was Military Chaplain at King William's Town, Kafferia, Cape of Good Hope. He was also Chaplain to the Forces at Mauritius between 1855 and 1857. During the 1860s he was Princess Alice's chaplain at Hesse-Darmstadt, and was an ambulance [hospital] chaplain during the Franco-Prussian War, receiving a French medal for his services. During the 1870s he held various posts in Scotland, and from 1885-1887 he was Chaplain of St Andrew's at Pau in the Basses-Pyrenées. He lived latterly at Torquay, where he died on 14 August 1895.

He was the author of Kafferia (1852), South Africa (1855), and Mauritius (1862).